A mob beat to death a member of the Ahmadiyya minority community on Friday after hundreds of supporters of a religiopolitical party surrounded their place of worship in Karachi,
police said.
The mob stormed through narrow streets of Saddar neighbourhood chanting slogans, enraged that the minority community were allegedly offering prayers.
"One member of the community was killed after the mob identified him as an Ahmadi. They attacked him with sticks and bricks," Muhammad Safdar, a senior local police official in Karachi where the incident happened.
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