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The incident took place in Sheikhupura when a large number of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) activists attacked the KFC restaurant, the police said.
While ransacking the restaurant, the TLP activists opened fire on its employees leaving one of them dead.
An employee of American fast-food chain KFC was killed in an attack on the restaurant by a radical Islamist party during an anti-Israel protest in Punjab province.
The incident took place in Sheikhupura when a large number of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) activists attacked the KFC restaurant, the police said.
While ransacking the restaurant, the TLP activists opened fire on its employees leaving one of them dead.
“When police reached the spot, the miscreants had fled,” an official said. Over three dozen suspects have been detained, and an investigation is ongoing, the police said.
Earlier, the TLP activists had attacked a KFC restaurant in Rawalpindi city and vandalised it. They also attacked KFC restaurants in Karachi and Lahore and set a portion of it on fire. Punjab police have since arrested 17 TLP members linked to those incidents.
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Karachi, Pakistan
