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| Boy killed as militants clash at Pakistan mosque | |
| 2003-05-24 | |
| Rival Sunni Muslim groups traded heavy gunfire in Pakistan's restive city of Karachi on Friday over control of a mosque, killing a teenage boy and wounding six people including two policemen, police said. Dozens of armed militants belonging to one radical Islamic group attacked the mosque in northern Karachi in an attempt to seize it from their rivals, they said. Residents and businessmen shuttered houses and shops and took cover as the militants exchanged gunfire for more than an hour. Followup, from Daily Times (Pakistan)... A teenager was killed during an armed clash between two religious organizations on Friday over the control of a mosque, police said. Among the three people injured in the clash between Sunni Tehrik and Tehrik-e-Ahl-e-Hadith was Karachi’s DIG Operarions, Tariq Jameel. Fourteen-year-old Farhan was passing by when he was caught in the firing. The mosque, Masjid-e-Rehmania, is under the control of the Tehrik-e-Ahl-e-Hadith. But the New Karachi industrial area, where the mosque is situated, is dominated by people of the rival Barelvi school of thought, to which Sunni Tehrik belongs.
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