Videos of 3,000 protestors obtained by police for arrests as second lynching victim identified as hosiery worker
The last rites for 10 Youhanabad victims were held on Tuesday in Lahore’s Saint John’sSchool amid tight security measures.
Several Rangers and police personnel were deployed in the vicinity as well as surrounding areas of Lahore. Scores of people attended the ceremony and grieved for their loved ones.
Twin blasts targeted the Roman Catholic Church and ChristChurch during Sunday mass in Youhanabad area of the provincial capital, killing at least 17 people including two policemen and injuring at least 70 others.
Meanwhile, police said that they have obtained videos of some 3000 protestors who lynched two persons and destroyed public property. The police said that these people would be identified and their arrests would start from Tuesday night.
On the other hand, situation remained tense but peaceful in Youhanabad as a number of police and rangers personnel were deployed in the area to prevent any untoward incident.
The administration also restored the Metro Bus Service in Lahore on Tuesday afternoon after basement was made of the losses suffered by the service at the hands of the violent protestors. According to reports, Youhanabad bus stop of Metro Bus was badly damaged by the agitators.
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In the meanwhile, joint investigation team (JIT), formed to investigate the Youhanabad incident, has obtained footages for identifying the elements behind the riots and damaging of public property after the church blasts.
The investigation has been handed over to JIT in which officers of sensitive agencies are also in the team. Evidence has been gathered against criminal involved in ransacking, burning alive of two people from video footages. Assistance is also taken from CCTV cameras to identify the criminal who took law into their hands.
In the meanwhile, media reported Tuesday that the second victim of Lahore lynching incident has been identified as Babar Noman, a hosiery worker who had come from Sargodha in search of employment at a factory.
The family members of Noman have come forward to claim the dead body of the deceased. However, police officials are persistent that the identity of the deceased can only be confirmed after the reports of DNA tests.
Meanwhile, police buried the dead body of the victim on Tuesday evening which will now be exhumed on court’s order following the application from victim’s family.
The first victim was identified when Muhammad Saleem filed an application at Lahore’s Nishtar Colony police station on Monday, saying that one of the two men lynched by an angry mob following the twin church blasts on Sunday was his brother Naeem.
Muhammad Saleem said his brother worked as a glass cutter and had nothing to do with church bombings in Lahore.