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CHRISTIAN BREAKING NEWS: Christian Community Attacked, House Burned Over Blasphemy Accusation in Pakistan [#ChristiansAttacked #BlasphemyAccusation]

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At least 5 members of a minority Christian community were rescued on Saturday when a Muslim mob invaded their settlement in eastern Pakistan, according to police and a community leader.

According to Shariq Kamal, the police chief of Sargodha district, the crowd threw stones and bricks at the police after accusing the Christian group of blasphemy.

A big police force had sealed off the village, he said, adding that the crowd had been forced back and 5 injured Christians had been transported to the hospital.

Protesters set fire to at least 1 house and a small shoe business after neighbors alleged that a minority community member had desecrated the Muslim holy book, the Koran, according to a police official and Christian leader Akmal Bhatti.

“They burned one house and lynched several Christians,” Bhatti said.

Social media videos showed protesters looting stuff from burning buildings.

Others were observed setting fire to the things in a pile on the roadway.

According to Pakistan’s independent Human Rights Commission, the Christian community is “at grave risk to their lives at the hands of the charged mobs”.

Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in conservative Muslim-majority Pakistan, where even an accusation might result in a street lynching.

Human rights groups claim that Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws are frequently misused to settle personal scores.

While blasphemy is punished by death in Pakistan, no one has been executed by the state, despite countless lynchings by enraged mobs.

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