70 dead in Lahore mosque attacks

[BurtWorm]

Interesting way to settle religious differences, with guns and grenades. Perhaps this approach will open minds to religious truths, if it doesn't kill them first...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/28/gunmen-mosques-lahore


Radical Sunni gunmen attack Ahmadi group with assault rifles and grenades in co-ordinated attack in eastern Pakistan

Gunmen with grenades attacked two mosques of a minority Islamic sect during Friday prayers in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, taking hostages and killing at least 70 people, police and emergency workers said.

At least seven attackers, including three suicide bombers, seized hostages and fired at worshippers indiscriminately during a three-hour spree that left another 78 people injured. The twin attacks targetted the Ahmadiyya group, which radical Sunnis have attacked in the past, though never in such a large-scale or co-ordinated fashion.

Sajjad Bhutta, deputy commissioner of Lahore, said at least 70 people were killed in the onslaught, which concluded when three attackers blew themselves up with suicide vests packed with explosives as police moved in at the first mosque. One attacker was arrested at the second site.

The two places of worship were several miles apart in the Garhi Shahu and Model Town neighbourhoods. The Dunya TV channel showed one of the attackers on a minaret firing an assault rifle and throwing hand grenades. Officers outside the Garhi Shahu mosque were drawn into a fierce gunfight with the attackers.

[slackmaster]

1. Muslims don't need us to kill them

They've got plenty of other Muslims to handle the job.