 Four employees of US fast-food franchise Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) were burned to death and two others froze to death in the outlet's refrigeration unit in Karachi during a riot that followed a suicide attack on an imambargah in Karachi, rescue workers said on Tuesday. The deaths have increased the overall toll to 12, six more than Monday's toll of the imambargah attack blamed on the defunct Jaish Muhammad.
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Enraged Shia mobs set fire to the restaurant on Monday night, but the bodies inside KFC were only found on Tuesday morning, said Rizwan Edhi of the Edhi Foundation. "All the dead were KFC employees," he said. The attack on the KFC outlet came just minutes after the attack on the Karachi mosque. Mobs of angry Shias also attacked a hospital, three gas stations, a bank, two banquet halls and a collection department of the Aga Khan Hospital and burned more than 25 vehicles. They also stoned several vehicles and buildings in different parts of the city. Five people were injured in an exchange of fire between mobs and police. Dozens of Shias also tried attacking another KFC but police detained 30 of them, said a police official. Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqi said security had been put on "high alert". |