Benazir Bhutto should have been safe leaving a vibrant rally where she was campaigning for her third term as prime minister of Pakistan.
She was travelling in a bulletproof car through a crowd of boisterous supporters.
Hidden amongst them was a teenage assassin, waiting for his moment.
It came when Bhutto opened the sunroof of her Land Rover and stood to wave to those who had come to cheer for her at Rawalpindi, a garrison city near the capital Islamabad, on December 27, 2007.
This was his opportunity and he struck. He shot Bhutto and detonated a suicide bomb, killing her and 23 people at the campaign rally.
Only a little more than a month after she had escaped another attempt on her life when she returned from eight years of self-exile, Bhutto was declared dead at 54.
Taliban, Al Qaeda and the government
As the country grappled with Bhutto's death outrage fomented into looting and rioting.
Political divisions had been brought to violence and there wasn't even agreement over how she had died.
In the days after Bhutto died, the government said she was killed when she fractured her skull on the sunroof.
Supporters maintained she was shot.
Bhutto's spokeswoman Sherry Rehman was in the motorcade at the time of the attack.
She also bathed Bhutto's body to prepare it for the funeral.
"There was a bullet wound I saw that went in from the back of her head and came out the other side," she said.
"We could not even wash her properly because the wound was still seeping. She lost a huge amount of blood."
Investigators spent years looking into her murder.
At one point forensic experts from Scotland Yard were called in.
From the start it was known the Pakistani Taliban and Al Qaeda were involved.
But it's long been thought elements of the establishment could have played a part.
Bhutto had been in danger since she returned to Pakistan from her self-exile in London and Dubai to lead the Pakistan People's Party (PPP).
At a rally in Karachi shortly to welcome her home, a suicide bomber killed nearly 150 people.
Militants had targeted Bhutto because she was seen as pro-Western and was in favour of action against terrorists.
The risk to her life was clear, and three years after Bhutto's murder the UN released its report into what it found to have happened on the day she was killed.
The UN found the government "was quick to blame" a local Taliban commander and al-Qaida and had not provided adequate security.
"A range of government officials failed profoundly in their efforts first to protect Ms Bhutto and second to investigate with vigour all those responsible for her murder, not only in the execution of the attack, but also in its conception, planning and financing," the UN Commission of Inquiry said.
"Responsibility for Ms Bhutto's security on the day of her assassination rested with the federal government, the government of Punjab and the Rawalpindi District Police. None of these entities took necessary measures to respond to the extraordinary, fresh and urgent security risks that they knew she faced."
Police chief sentenced in connection to assassination
In 2011, seven people were eventually charged in connection with Bhutto's assassination.
They were the former police chief of Rawalpindi, where Bhutto was murdered, another senior police officer and five suspected members of the Taliban.
Three others believed to have been involved were killed, including Baitullah Mehsud, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban.
In 2013, as the legal process creaked along, the main government prosecutor in the case was ambushed and shot dead by gunmen on a motorbike as he was driving to a hearing about Bhutto's assassination.
Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was also charged over the assassination that year.
He appeared at court in 2013 amid tight security but never faced justice.
He fled to Dubai, when a travel ban was lifted in 2016, and stayed there until he died in hospital in 2023.
The two senior police officers were eventually sentenced to 17 years in prison, while the five suspected militants were acquitted.
They had been found guilty of negligence and mistreatment of evidence, and remain the only people convicted in connection with her assassination.
Bhutto built political dynasty
Bhutto helped to build her family into a political dynasty that is still going.
She is perhaps its most famous member, having been the first female prime minister in a Muslim-majority country as well as Pakistan's second nationally elected prime minister.
With the success, there have also been dark times for the Bhutto dynasty.
Her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founded the PPP and led Pakistan for six years until he was driven from office in a 1977 military coup.
He was hanged in 1979 for authorising the murder of a political opponent.
The intertwining of death and politics has haunted the family for two generations but it has not deterred Bhutto's son.
Days after her assassination Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was made chair of the PPP.
"My mother always said democracy is the best revenge," the then-19-year-old said in an impassioned speech amid tight security.
He had entered the political scene but was too young to run as a candidate.
Bhutto's husband and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's father Asif Ali Zardari was made co-leader of the party despite his shady past.
He had spent time in jail and was known widely as "Mr 10 per cent" in a reference to the slice of government contracts he demanded as bribes while Bhutto was prime minister.
Mr Zadari also went into office.
He succeed Pervez Musharraf — the man charged over his wife's assassination — as president of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013.
In 2024 he began another term as president.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was eventually elected to the lower house of the Pakistani parliament in 2018 and in 2022 served a short stint as the country's youngest foreign minister.
Ahead of elections in 2024, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari became the PPP's candidate for prime minister.
Out of the hung parliament that resulted, the PPP joined a coalition but did not take any cabinet positions.
The latest scion of the Bhutto dynasty is still young, especially in politics, and at 37 has plenty of time left to chase the legacy and aspirations of his murdered mother.
