Thousands of protestors stormed through two cities in Pakistan on Tuesday, torching Western businesses and shouting slogans in what officials call ‘‘Pakistan’s worst violence against the Prophet Muhammad drawings.’’
At least two people were killed and 11 injured in the rampage as security forces fired into the air and used teargas to disperse the crowd in the eastern city of Lahore, reported the Associated Press. In Lahore, protestors burned down four buildings housing a hotel, two banks, a restaurant and the office of a Norwegian mobile phone company.
In addition, witnesses said rioters also damaged more than 200 cars, dozens of shops and a large portrait of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Windows of a Holiday Inn, Pizza Hut and McDonalds’s were broken by demonstrators along with the torching of two movie theatres reported AP.
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