ET: LAHORE: An elderly woman, two minors and an unborn child all perished late on Sunday when houses belonging to Ahmadis were set ablaze in Gujranwala by a charged mob after an Ahmadi boy was accused of blasphemy.
It was all too familiar for a community that saw back-to-back attacks on its places of worship just four years ago — attacks that killed 86 Ahmadis.
On Sunday, a woman and two of her granddaughters died of suffocation while a seven-month-old unborn child also suffered the same fate when the child’s mother had a miscarriage. The mother is still in critical condition.
The charged mob started looting and setting the houses on fire at 8pm and continued to do so until 12:30am on Monday in the presence of the police, said Dr Muhammad Akram, head of Gujranwala Jamaat Ahmadia.
He said the mob did not let ambulances of Rescue 1122, fire fighters aid the rescuers and the police remained silent spectators. “However, after the mob had set the houses on fire, the police recovered three bodies and nine injured people from the burnt houses.”
Akram told The Express Tribune that among the deceased were Bushra Bibi aged 54, Hira aged 7 and his sister Kainat who was six months old. Both girls were daughters of Muhammad Boota. He went on to add that Mubashra Bibi, Boota’s sister, had a miscarriage.
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