From Canada's CTV, Dec. 29:

Pakistan's government has refused help from foreign officials in investigating how political figure Benazir Bhutto died, after an official report that she suffered a skull fracture came under criticism.

"This is not an ordinary criminal matter in which we require assistance of the international community. I think we are capable of handling it," Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said Saturday.

According to CTV's Paul Workman, reporting from Pakistan, a local television crew filming Bhutto's final moments recorded a man firing a gun close to Bhutto's SUV.

Sherry Rehman, who was in the same vehicle as Bhutto when the political leader was slain, told CNN that Bhutto was shot.

"I have seen the bullet wound at the back of her head," said Rehman.

"To say that she was concussed from the sunroof is dangerous nonsense. They are absolving themselves of responsibility for providing her better security."

A video released by the government clearly has the sound of at least three shots being fired before the suicide bomber triggered his explosive device.

Several witnesses say they saw Bhutto hit by bullets.

The government claimed Friday that Bhutto died of a skull fracture suffered after a suicide bomber's explosives were detonated. It says that her head struck a lever for her armoured SUV's sunroof.