A mob broke into a Pakistani police station, seized a man
alleged to have desecrated the Koran and burnt him alive.
The man, who was a
traveler, had spent Thursday night at a mosque, said Maulvi Memon, the imam in
the southern village of Seeta in Sindh province, but the next morning, what
they found were the charred remains of the Koran.
Memon while narrating what led to the incident said:
“He was alone in the
mosque during the night, there was no one else there to do this terrible
thing.”
Villagers beat the man then handed him over to police. But
not satisfied, a crowd of around 200 stormed the police station a few hours
later, dragged the man out and set him on fire, said Usman Ghani, the senior superintendent
of police in Dadu district.
Ghani said around 30 people had been arrested for the murder
and seven police officers detained for negligence.
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