In yet another bizarre incident reported from Pakistan, an angry mob stoned to death a mentally ill man. The incident is the country’s latest case of blasphemy-related violence.
As per reports, dozens of people have been arrested over the lynching, which happened on Saturday evening in a remote village in Punjab province. The mob alleged that the victim burned some pages of the Qur’an.
The killing came just over two months after a Sri Lankan factory manager was beaten to death and set on fire by a mob over blasphemy in Sialkot city, also in Punjab.
In April 2017, an angry mob killed the university student Mashal Khan after he was accused of posting blasphemous content online.
In another incident, a Christian couple were lynched then burned in a kiln in Punjab in 2014 after being falsely accused of desecrating the Qur’an.
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