Islamabad, Pakistan:

No less than 5 members of a minority Christian neighborhood have been rescued on Saturday after a Muslim crowd attacked their settlement in japanese Pakistan, police and a neighborhood chief mentioned.

The gang, which accused the Christian group of blasphemy, hurled stones and bricks on the police, mentioned Shariq Kamal, the police chief of Sargodha district.

A big contingent of police cordoned off the settlement, he mentioned, including that the gang had been pushed again and 5 injured Christians had been taken to hospital.

No less than one home and a small shoe manufacturing unit was set on fireplace by protesters who had gathered after neighbours alleged that the Muslim holy e-book, the Quran, had been desecrated by a minority neighborhood member, in response to a police spokesman and Akmal Bhatti, a Christian chief.

“They burned one home and lynched a number of Christians,” Bhatti mentioned.

Movies posted on social media confirmed protesters looting objects from burning properties. Others have been seen throwing the objects in a heap on fireplace in a avenue.

Bhatti mentioned the movies have been photos from the scene.

Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the photographs.

The impartial Human Rights Fee of Pakistan mentioned the Christian neighborhood was “at grave danger to their lives by the hands of the charged mobs”.

Blasphemy is a delicate topic in conservative Muslim- majority Pakistan, the place simply an accusation can result in a avenue lynching.

Human rights teams say Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy legal guidelines are sometimes misused to settle private scores.

Whereas blasphemy is punishable by demise in Pakistan, nobody has been executed by the state for it, although quite a few accused have been lynched by outraged mobs.

A Muslim crowd attacked a Christian neighborhood in japanese Pakistan final 12 months, vandalising a number of church buildings and setting scores of homes on fireplace after accusing two of its members of desecrating the Quran.

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