Christian farm labourer beaten to death by landlord in Pakistan, family says.
Family members touch a coffin of a relative, who was killed in a blast outside a public park on Sunday, during a funeral in Lahore, Pakistan, March 28, 2016. | Reuters/Mohsin RazaLAHORE, Pakistan — A Muslim landowner in Pakistan on Monday beat a Catholic farm labourer to death, claiming he had stolen oranges from his orchard, the victim’s family said.
The killing follows the shooting death last month of another Christian in the country after he stopped Muslims from stealing from his guava crop.
In Punjab province’s Khanewal district, landlord Rana Muhammad Waseem and five others beat Emmanuel Masih, 48, to death early Monday morning as Masih irrigated his employer’s fields in chak No. 139/10R village, according to the victim’s nephew, Zahid Sahotra. CP.
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