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6,000 Police, Troops Deployed After Muslim Mob Attacks Christian Community in Pakistan
The Salvation Army Church in Jaranwala was among the five churches vandalized. Videos on social media showed a handful of men on the roof of the church, the largest in the city, attacking its front facade and attempting to dislodge the cross on top. Some of the purported videos on X showed police officials standing amid the crowd of onlookers as the attackers continued vandalizing the churches.
Houses, businesses and graveyards belonging to the Christian community were also targeted as violence gripped the city of 230,000.
Thousands of additional police and paramilitary troops have been deployed to control the violence in the South Asian nation, which has been facing an unprecedented political and economic crisis.
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