RAWALPINDI , Pakistan ( CNN ) -- Pakistan 's streets were eerily quiet and empty early Friday after a night of anger and anguish following the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto . Bhutto supporters grieve at the hospital in Rawalpindi where was pronounced dead . Bhutto 's body arrived in the hours before dawn at her ancestral village of Garhi-Khuda Baksh for burial after a long journey from Rawalpindi , where she died , by transport plane , helicopter and ambulance . The former prime minister 's family -- her husband and three children -- accompanied the body aboard a Pakistani Air Force C-130 transport plane to Sukkor but traveled by bus from there to Larkana and on to Garhi-Khuda Baksh . The funeral is planned for Friday afternoon . In Washington , White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said Bhutto 's family had requested a private funeral . Bhutto , 54 , was killed Thursday by the bullets of an assassin who blew himself up after firing the shots , killing at least 28 more people and wounding at least 100 , GEO-TV reported . Bhutto , who was campaigning for next month 's parliamentary elections , had completed an election rally minutes earlier and was leaving the rally site , Rawalpindi 's Liaquat Bagh Park , at the time of the attack . As a shocked Pakistan absorbed the news of Bhutto 's death , authorities called for calm and asked residents to stay inside . Many obliged , shuttering shops or rushing home from work and surrendering the streets to protesters who set fire to banks , shops and gas stations , blocked streets and pelted police with rocks , Pakistani media reported . At least five people were killed in Karachi in the violence , GEO TV reported , and dozens more were wounded . Police in Khairpur fired on an angry mob , killing two people , the station reported , and two more people were killed in Larkana . It 's all mayhem everywhere , '' Shehryar Ahmad , an investment banker in Karachi , told CNN by telephone . `` There 's absolutely no order of any kind . No army on the streets . No curfew . '' Ahmad said that he saw dozens of burned-out cars as he drove home from work . A one-mile strip leading to Bhutto 's Karachi house was a `` ghost town , '' he said . Bhutto 's body was being transported to the family 's ancestral graveyard in Gari-Khuda Baksh in Sindh province , where she will be buried later Friday , said Sen. Safdar Abbasi , a leader of her Pakistan People 's Party . Watch how the tragedy unfolded » . The first leg was completed when , according to Pakistani TV stations , a Pakistan Air Force plane landed at Sukkur at about 3:15 a.m. Friday ( 5:30 p.m. Thursday ET ) . Bhutto 's body was accompanied by her husband and three children . Bhutto is expected to be taken the rest of the way to her ancestral home by helicopter . Authorities are avoiding road travel because it could be mobbed by grieving supporters , the television stations reported . Her coffin body was removed from Rawalpindi General Hospital late Thursday -- carried above a crowd of grieving supporters . Watch Bhutto 's casket carried from the hospital » . Bhutto spent her final moments giving a stirring address to thousands of supporters at a political rally in a park in Rawalpindi , a city of roughly 1.5 million that is 14 km ( 9 miles ) south of the Pakistani capital , Islamabad . She climbed into a white Land Rover and stood through the sunroof to wave to crowds after the speech . It was then that someone fired two shots , and Bhutto slumped back into the vehicle , said John Moore , a news photographer with Getty Images who saw what happened . Seconds later an explosion rocked the park , sending orange flames into the throng of Bhutto supporters and littering the park with twisted metal and chunks of rubble . The carnage was everywhere , he said . The assassination happened in Liaquat Bagh Park , named for Pakistan 's first prime minister -- Liaquat Ali Khan -- who was assassinated in the same location in 1951 . The attack came just hours after four supporters of former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif died when members of another political party opened fire on them at a rally near the Islamabad airport Thursday , Pakistan police said . Several other members of Sharif 's party were wounded , police said . Bhutto , who led Pakistan from 1988-1990 and 1993-96 , but both times the sitting president dismissed her amid corruption allegations . She was the first female prime minister of any Islamic nation , and was participating in the parliamentary election set for January 8 , hoping for a third term as prime minister . Watch Benazir Bhutto obituary » . A terror attack targeting her motorcade in Karachi killed 136 people on the day she returned to Pakistan after eight years of self-imposed exile . Bhutto had been critical of what she believed was a lack of effort by President Pervez Musharraf 's government to protect her . View timeline » . Two weeks after the October assassination attempt , she wrote a commentary for CNN.com in which she questioned why Pakistan investigators refused international offers of help in finding the attackers . E-mail to a friend .
NEW : Former Karachi body arrives at her ancestral home for burial . Body en route to ancestral graveyard accompanied by husband , four children . Unrest , rioting reported in Peshawar , Khairpur and Karachi . Bhutto died while campaigning to become prime minister for a first time .