Mob attacks and sets ablaze a Hindu temple in northwestern Pakistan CNN 12/31/2020 © Google Earth
A mob in northwestern Pakistan attacked and set ablaze a century-old Hindu temple on Wednesday, officials said, prompting condemnations from the Muslim-majority country s Hindu community.
Hindus are the largest non-Muslim religious group in Pakistan, which gained independence from British rule in 1947, when the subcontinent was partitioned into Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India.
Videos made by locals at the scene and shared with Reuters showed a crowd breaking apart blocks of the temple structure s walls using stones and sledgehammers, as dark smoke from a large fire billowed into the sky.
Mob attacks, sets ablaze Hindu tample in Pakistan
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