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  • 28/07/2014
--STORY CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES --

Flames of rage in Pakistan as mobs kill two girls and a grandmother over what they say is a "blasphemous" Facebook posting.

The victims were members of the Ahmadi religious sect, reportedly targeted because of a picture posted on Facebook by an Ahmadi man.

The picture apparently showed a holy site featuring scantily clad woman.

Police say they were unable to stop the mobs in the town about 140 miles southeast of Islamabad.

The vicitms were a seven-year-old girl, her baby sister and her grandmother.

Authorities say sectarian assaults against minorities are on the rise in Pakistan.

Ahmadis consider themselves Muslim but believe in a prophet after Mohammed. Many Pakistanis consider them heretics.

Police say the man accused of making the Facebook post had not been injured.

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