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Members of Pakistan Hindu Council hold placards during a protest against a mob attack to a Hindu temple in a remote village in Karak district, in Karachi.
KARAK: At least two dozen people, including several Muslim clerics, were detained Thursday after a mob attacked and set fire to a Hindu temple in northwest Pakistan, police said.
Around 1,500 Muslims on Wednesday descended on the temple which was destroyed in similar circumstances in 1997 after staging a protest against renovations at an adjoining building owned by Hindus.
The temple is located in a remote village in Karak district, some 160 kilometres (100 miles) southeast of Peshawar.
Muslim clerics among 26 held after Pakistan Hindu temple destroyed
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At least two dozen people, including several Muslim clerics, were detained Thursday after a mob attacked and set fire to a Hindu temple in northwest Pakistan, police said.
Around 1,500 Muslims descended on the temple which was destroyed in similar circumstances in 1997 after staging a protest against renovations at an adjoining building owned by Hindus.
The temple is located in a remote village in Karak district, some 160 kilometres (100 miles) southeast of Peshawar. We have arrested 26 people including local clerics for destroying a place of worship and inciting people to riot , local police official Fazal Sher told AFP.
Clerics among 26 held after Hindu temple set ablaze in Karak
Police looking for further 50 people identified from the videos of the attack
Around 1,500 people descended on the temple after staging a protest against renovations at an adjoining building owned by Hindu community. PHOTO: EXPRESS
At least two dozen people, including several clerics, were detained on Thursday after a mob attacked and set fire to a Hindu temple in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa s Karak district, police said.
Around 1,500 people descended on the temple after staging a protest against renovations at an adjoining building owned by Hindu community.
The temple is located in a remote village of Terri in Karak, some 160 kilometres southeast of Peshawar.
31 arrested for setting fire to Karak Hindu temple
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Policemen inspect the burnt Hindu temple a day after a mob attack in Karak district on December 31, 2020. (AFP)
Police have arrested 31 people for setting fire to a historic Hindu temple in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district, the KP inspector-general said Thursday.
IG Sanaullah Abbasi told reporters in Karak that at least 300 people have been nominated in the FIR. Of them, 31 have been arrested while others are being identified with the help of the video footage.