Thousands mourn Bhutto's killing

GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of supporters of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto streamed into her home town on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of her assassination.

Bhutto, 54, was killed in a gun and bomb attack in the city of Rawalpindi as she emerged from an election rally just over two months after she had returned from years of self-exile.

President Asif Ali Zardari, her widower, in a statement marking the anniversary, said the attack on his wife was an attack on the viability of state and aimed at undermining efforts to build democratic structures and to fighting militancy.