Murtaza Bhutto, a prominent leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party and son of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was killed the day before during a violent gun battle with police in Karachi.
The incident highlighted the ongoing political tensions and violence in Pakistani politics during the mid-1990s.
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