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Police in southern Pakistan shoot dead blasphemy suspect
Killing comes a week after an officer fatally wounded another suspect held on accusations of blasphemy
Police in southern Pakistan have shot dead a blasphemy suspect during an alleged shootout with armed men, in the second such killing in a week.
Police identified the man as Shah Nawaz, a doctor in the Umerkot district in the southern Sindh province, who had gone into hiding two days ago after being accused of insulting Islam’s prophet Muhammad and sharing blasphemous content on social media.
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