FRANCE-SHOOTING/PAKISTAN Pakistan police clash with protesters outside French consulate
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FRANCE-SHOOTING/PAKISTAN Pakistan police clash with protesters outside French consulate
- Title: FRANCE-SHOOTING/PAKISTAN Pakistan police clash with protesters outside French consulate
- Date: 16th January 2015
- Summary: KARACHI, PAKISTAN (JANUARY 16, 2015) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS GATHERING OUTSIDE MOSQUE PROTESTERS STANDING WHILE SINGING RELIGIOUS POETRY AND HOLDING BANNER READING (Urdu) "WE WILL SACRIFICE OUR LIVES FOR HONOUR OF PROPHET" MORE OF PROTESTERS GATHERING OUTSIDE MOSQUE
- Embargoed: 31st January 2015 12:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Pakistan
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA4N1LJCNSM0HV34U5IKRMXMZYX
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3
About 200 protesters clashed on Friday (January 16) with Pakistani police outside the French consulate in the southern port city of Karachi after a demonstration against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo turned violent.
A Reuters photographer said some of the protesters appeared armed with guns, after seeing them firing shots in response to security forces using a water cannon and tear gas to stop the crowd advancing.
At least three people were wounded and taken to hospital, one of which was in a critical condition, a Karachi doctor said.
After the clashes, the protesters, who were mainly students from a local university, retreated to a nearby area but refused to leave, as police blocked access to the consulate.
It was the first time people's anger over satirical cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo spilled into violence in deeply conservative Pakistan, in the wake of the January 7 attack by Islamist-inspired militants on the weekly in Paris. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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