Lahore: Thousands of supporters of a Pakistan Islamist party who blocked major roads to protest the arrest of their leader also disrupted critical oxygen supplies for COVID-19 patients, health officials said Tuesday.
Major intersections remained closed in Lahore, Pakistan s second-biggest city, after the arrest on Monday of Saad Rizvi, the leader of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
The party has led calls for the expulsion of the French ambassador, after the government of President Emmanuel Macron expressed support for a magazine s right to republish cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) - an act deemed blasphemous by Muslims.
Yasmin Rashid, a leading health official in Punjab, said the disruption of oxygen supplies during protests Monday night had been a crisis .
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on April 14 2021 4:46 AM
Thousands of supporters of a Pakistan extremist party clashed with police for a second day Tuesday, demanding the release of their leader who was arrested after calling for the French ambassador to be kicked out of the country.
Police said two officers died after being wounded in clashes in Lahore, the country s second-biggest city, while the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) said three of its supporters were killed.
Police have not commented on the reported TLP deaths.
Protesters spilled into the streets in anger at Monday s arrest of TLP leader Saad Rizvi, with major intersections also blocked in the capital Islamabad.