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  • Pakistani Youths Set Pizza Hut on Fire to Protest Cleric's Death

    07/15/2006 2:41:47 PM PDT · by oxcart · 41 replies · 937+ views
    AP via FoxNews ^ | 07/15/2006 | Unknown
    KARACHI, Pakistan — Hundreds of youths set fire to a Pizza Hut restaurant, two gas stations and a dozen vehicles in Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi, after Saturday's funeral for an Islamic Shiite cleric killed in a suicide attack. Rioters rampaged through a busy commercial area a day after a suicide bomber killed cleric Allama Hassan Turabi, his cousin and a police guard. Police fired shots in the air, swung batons and used tear gas to control the crowd. Hours earlier, Turabi was buried at a city cemetery after more than 8,000 people, beating their chests with their hands as a...