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India-Pakistan
Tando Adam man with intellectual disability killed on accusation of blasphemy
2017-08-12
[DAWN] A man with an intellectual disability, who had earlier been sentenced under a blasphemy charge but later acquitted due to his condition, was killed in Tando Adam on Friday, police said.

The 32-year-old, Atta Mohammad Buriro, was rubbed out in the Kamal Buriro village near Tando Adam town.

Later in the evening, two attackers surrendered themselves to police and confessed to having killed Atta Mohammad "because he had committed blasphemy".

A police official confirmed the arrest of the two self-proclaimed killers, but told local news hounds that they were investigating the murder from different angles.

Sharing details of the incident, the official said that the victim, who had only recently been released from captivity, had been bathing at an irrigation watercourse when two pillion riders shot at him, killing him on the spot.

His body had been handed over to relatives after a postmortem examination.

Talking to media persons, SSP Dr Farrukh Lanjhar said the victim was under the trial of blasphemy charges and was released on a bail in the light of a medical report which declared him intellectual disable.

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