Mob storms Pakistan police station and lynches man accused of blasphemy
by Haroon Janjua in Islamabad from World news | The Guardian on (#68S9W)
Killing is latest in string of mob attacks against people accused of blasphemy in Muslim-majority country
A mob in eastern Pakistan stormed a police station on Saturday, snatched a Muslim man accused of blasphemy from custody and lynched him, in the country's latest religion-linked killing.
Muhammad Waris, in his mid-30s, was in police custody in Nankana Sahib, in Punjab province, for desecrating pages of the Qur'an.
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