Priest killed by gunmen in Pakistan attack
Gunmen killed a Christian priest and wounded every other because the clerics drove domestic from church in Pakistan’s northwestern town of Peshawar on Sunday, police stated.
Two attackers on a motorbike opened hearthplace on the auto at the town’s ring-road, killing Pastor William Siraj instantly, officials added.
No one right now claimed duty for the taking pictures in a town wherein rankings of humans died in a dual suicide bombing outdoor a church in 2013 — one of the deadliest assaults on Pakistan’s Christian minority.
Azad Marshall, the maximum senior bishop withinside the Church of Pakistan, condemned the assault and tweeted: “We call for justice and safety of Christians from the Government of Pakistan.”
Pakistan’s northwestern regions bordering Afghanistan have visible a upward thrust in militant assaults on protection forces in current days, lots of them claimed with the aid of using Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a collection which friends itself with the Afghan Taliban.
TV photos confirmed emergency offerings eliminating Siraj from the auto, and those chanting “Long stay Jesus Christ” as they carried his frame on a mattress via the streets to a house. Mourners hugged every different and sobbed.
Pastor Siraj’s colleague — named with the aid of using Bishop Azad because the Reverend Patrick Naeem — become out of hazard and being dealt with for his injuries, a spokesman for the town’s Lady Reading health facility stated.
Bishop Azad stated each had been clergy of the Diocese of Peshawar withinside the Church of Pakistan, that’s a union of protestant church buildings such as the Methodists and the Anglicans.
