U.S. franchise burned in riot; 6 Pakistanis die
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Six employees of the U.S. fast-food franchise KFC were burned to death in Karachi during a riot that followed a suicide attack on a mosque in the southern Pakistan city, rescue workers said Tuesday. Shiites set fire to the restaurant after the mosque attack in which five people died on Monday night, but the bodies of those burned were found on Tuesday morning, said Rizwan Edhi of the Edhi Foundation, a private emergency service. "We recovered the bodies of the six people from the debris of the KFC early this morning. All the dead were employees of KFC," he said. On Monday, at least five people, including two assailants, were killed in the suicide bomb attack on the Shiite mosque in the same Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi. At least 18 people were wounded, four seriously, in the attack at the Mandinatul Ilm mosque, the latest incident of religious violence to hit one of Washington's main allies in its war on terror. The mosque attack came just three days after a suicide bombing at a Muslim festival in Islamabad on Friday that killed at least 19 people, most of them Shiite Muslims, in the worst such attack ever in the capital city. More than 100 people have been killed in attacks by militants from the Sunni majority and Shiite minority in the past year. Most of the attacks have been attributed to Sunni militant groups with links to Al Qaeda, which have been angered by Pakistan's support for the war on terror. Analysts say the Sunni militants have revived longstanding sectarian rivalry as a means to destabilize President Pervez Musharraf's government. Shiites often attack symbols of U.S. influence after sectarian attacks. They accuse the government of failing to act to prevent religious violence. The attack on the KFC outlet came just minutes after the attack on the Karachi mosque. Angry Shiite youths also attacked a hospital and two gas stations and burned more than a dozen vehicles. Shiites make up about 15 percent of Pakistan's population of more than 150 million. Hours before the mosque attack, unknown assailants killed a provincial leader from the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Islamic opposition alliance in Karachi. Aslam Mujahid, deputy chief of Jamaat-e-Islami in the city, was kidnapped Monday and his bullet-riddled body was later found in an abandoned car in the east of the city. Source: Herald Tribune Asia/Pacific |
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