Pakistan mob kills woman and girls, over "blasphemous" Facebook post
- 10 years ago
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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.
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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