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Monday, March 28, 2005

Pakistan: 'Armed gunmen attacked Christian worshippers as they emerged from Easter services in a village church yesterday, killing one man and injuring seven other congregants. Irshad Masih, in his early 20s, died from a bullet that struck his head during a half hour of indiscriminate shooting by four attackers. Seven other victims suffering severe gunshot wounds were hospitalized at Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital. Two police guards were reportedly absent from their post at 10:30 a.m. yesterday, when attackers opened fire at Victory Church International in Khamba village near Lahore. Police later said they had arrested two of the four suspects in the shooting, and attributed the attack to a local land dispute. Local observers discounted that version of events. “Actually, it is terrorism,” one source told Compass. “They attacked people and started indiscriminate firing upon a congregation of some 150 people!”' (Compass Direct)

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