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8 KFC torching suspects arrested
Pakistani police have arrested eight Shi'ite Muslims over a riot last week in the southern city of Karachi when six staff at a U.S. fast-food outlet were killed following a suicide attack on a mosque, police said on Wednesday. The six KFC employees were killed after mobs of angry Shi'ites set fire to the restaurant and attacked other property after the bombing at the Shi'ite Madinatul Ilm mosque on May 30. Five people were killed in the blast. "They are suspected of involvement in the riots including the attack on KFC," said Tariq Ali, a local police official. He said a court had remanded the eight men to police custody until June 13. The Karachi mosque attack came three days after a suicide bombing at a Muslim festival in the capital, Islamabad, that killed at least 19 people, mostly Shi'ites. Investigators suspect that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an underground militant group with ties to Afghanistan's former Taliban regime and with al Qaeda, was behind both attacks. Some Pakistan intelligence agents suspected a link between the incidents and the suicide bombing of a mosque in the Afghan city of Kandahar on June 1 that killed 20 people. Police arrested two members of the group on Monday on suspicion of involvement in the Karachi mosque attack. Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-06-08 |
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