Islamabad, Dec 31: Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto might have been targeted with a laser gun and the injury was fresh till the last moment, said Sherry Rehman, Central Information Secretary of the Pakistan People’s Party.

She said that the claim of the Interior Ministry was a bid to cover the real culprits and the Pakistan Government’s failure to provide security to the leader of the biggest political party of the country.

Rehman said that the tyres of Benazir’s vehicle were bust due to the blast and she was taken to hospital in her car.

She said Benazir succumbed to her injuries before reaching the central hospital.

Rehman said that the government should avoid irresponsible statements as such statements could further deteriorate the situation, The Nation reported.

She said the gap created by the assassination of Benazir could never be filled.

Earlier, Rehman claimed that she saw a bullet injury in Benazir’s head.

Rehman said that she saw the injury while Benazir’s body was being washed before the burial in Larkana on Friday.

"I was actually part of the party which bathed her body before the funeral, " a foreign news agency quoted Rehman, as saying.

"There was a bullet wound I saw that went in from the back of her head and came out the other side, " said Rehman, adding, "We could not even wash her properly because the wound was still seeping. She lost a huge amount of blood. "

She also rubbished the Pakistan Government’s claim that Benazir died after her head hit the sunroof of car.

Rehman, who was in Benazir’s motorcade at the time of the gun and suicide attack, said that her car was used to transport Benazir to hospital.

"The hospital was made to change its statement. They never gave a proper report, " the Dawn quoted her, as saying.

"I believe the interior ministry is saying that she died from some concussion that may have taken place against the sunroof. This is ridiculous, dangerous nonsense because it is a cover-up of what actually happened, " Rehman said.

Benazir was assassinated on Thursday after she addressed a public meeting in Rawalpindi. (ANI)