A mob in Pakistan has killed a man over alleged desecration of the Quran.<\/p>\n
According to local media, the incident occurred in Madyan, a popular hill station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, north-western Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of men stormed and vandalised a police station where the man was kept after the locals handed him over.<\/p>\n
Videos of the incident circulating on social media showed scores of men beating and then torching the body of the man.<\/p>\n
A police spokesman, Wajid Rasool, said the man accused of blasphemy was a tourist from the Sialkot district of the Punjab.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have started investigations into the incident and are tracing those who attacked the police station,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Blasphemy is a sensitive topic in Pakistan, and those accused can become targets of extremist Muslim vigilante groups.<\/p>\n
In some cases, they have been gunned down, burned alive or bludgeoned to death.<\/p>\n
In May, a mob vandalised a Christian neighbourhood in Sargodha and tortured a man over an allegation of blasphemy.<\/p>\n
The man died in a hospital some weeks later.<\/p>\n
In 2020, a Pakistani-U.S. citizen was shot and killed inside a courtroom during his trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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