A mob broke into a Pakistani police station, seized a man alleged to have desecrated the Koran and burnt him alive.
The man, who was a traveler, had spent Thursday night at a mosque, said Maulvi Memon, the imam in the southern village of Seeta in Sindh province, but the next morning, what they found were the charred remains of the Koran.
Memon while narrating what led to the incident said:
“He was alone in the mosque during the night, there was no one else there to do this terrible thing.”
Villagers beat the man then handed him over to police. But not satisfied, a crowd of around 200 stormed the police station a few hours later, dragged the man out and set him on fire, said Usman Ghani, the senior superintendent of police in Dadu district.
Ghani said around 30 people had been arrested for the murder and seven police officers detained for negligence.