ISLAMABAD, October 19, SPA -- The death toll of two explosions in a huge procession led by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi shortly after midnight Thursday shot up to 135 with over 550 injured, officials said. The suicide attacks took place near a large truck on which Ms Bhutto was leading the procession to the mausoleum of the founder of Pakistan to address a public meeting there. More than two dozens policemen were included among the dead. Ms Bhutto returned to Pakistan after ending her eight and a half years exile. She remained unhurt. After the attacks, she was promptly taken out of the special truck and taken to her residence, Bilawal House. The blasts occurred near Karsaz on Shahrae Faisal close to her truck. Thousands of her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supporters were walking on foot before and after the truck, which was also carrying a large number of senior PPP leaders. Some of them sustained minor injuries. At the time of the explosions, Ms Bhutto was resting inside the truck. Rescuers scrambled to drag bodies from the twisted wreckage of blazing vehicles as fires broke out at the site. More than two dozen vehicles, including police mobile units, were completely shattered. The carnage scattered body parts over a large area. The great rush of people hampered ambulances to promptly remove the dead and wounded to hospitals. Senior police official Raja Umer Khitab said the first blast was a suicide attack. He said the police had recovered part of a torso wearing a suicide jacket as well as the head and hands and feet of the suicide bomber. According to witnesses, the bomber tried to enter the inner security cordon of PPP workers around Ms Bhutto but was stopped, and then he set off the explosion. He said the second blast originated from a golden-coloured Pajero jeep parked on the road. Rioting and gunfire broke out in different parts of Karachi after the two bomb blasts.--MORE www.spa.gov.sa/491437