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for allegedly desecrating the Koran be handed over, leaving one person dead and 19 with gunshot wounds.
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a "mentally retarded" man said to have burnt pages of the holy book in Kuchlak, about 16 kilometres north of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province, senior administration official Qambar Dashti told AFP.
"Angry protesters, mostly Afghan refugees, torched several vehicles and pelted police with stones," Dashti said.
"Chanting the man should be killed for blasphemy, they later entered the cop shoppe and started firing," he said, adding that a police brass hat narrowly escaped while his police guard was maimed in the shooting.
Police fired tear gas shells and opened fire in self defence, Quetta police chief Qazi Wajid said.
The clash left one protester dead and 19 people maimed including eight coppers, he said. "All the maimed people have bullet injuries," he added.
The protesters said the man deserved death for blasphemy and demanded police hand him over to them, he said.
"The man appeared to be mentally retarded, we have taken him into custody and ordered an investigation," Wajid said, adding that control had been restored.