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| Pakistan Mob Kills One over Alleged Desecration of Koran |
| 2013-12-12 |
| [An Nahar] A mob killed a man and maimed three others over the alleged desecration of a Koran in the southwestern Pak city of Quetta on Wednesday, officials said. Their idol is a book, y'see... The violence started when some vendors allegedly found torn-out pages of Koran in a pomegranate crate they received in a shipment from neighboring Iran, witnesses and officials said. A mob then formed, shouting slogans against Shiites, who form a majority in Iran. They destroyed shops, burnt a cycle of violence and tried to march towards a Shiite neighborhood in the city but were stopped by police, a senior police official told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity. The crowd began shooting indiscriminately in various parts of the city, which resulted in one death and bullet wounds to three others. "At least one man was killed and three others were maimed in firing incidents in the city," provincial home secretary Asad Gilani told AFP. Gilani said the unrest in the city was contained after paramilitary troops were deployed in key areas, but he declined to shed light on the allegations of desecration. He said that nobody had come to the police to register a case under the country's strict blasphemy law. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Finally! A good use for pomegranates! |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2013-12-12 20:53 |
| #2 vendors allegedly found torn-out pages of Koran in a pomegranate crate Can these guys even read? (googling suggests a literacy rate of ~38%) /me suspects they found paper with writing and went crazy. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-12-12 18:01 |
| #1 hope nobody checks the outhouse paper supply |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-12-12 11:41 |