Six employees of the American fast food restaurant, KFC were burnt alive when an angry mob protesting against a suicide bombing of a mosque set the restaurant on fire in Karachi.
Four of the victims at the restaurant were burned to death while the two others froze to death after taking refuge in a refrigeration unit at the restaurant.
Anti-US feeling grew in Pakistan after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf allied the country with Washington in the war on terror after Sept. 11, 2001.
Sunni Muslim extremists were suspected in the mosque attack, and it was unclear why the KFC restaurant was targeted in retaliatory rioting, along with arson attacks on vehicles, shops, three bank branches and three gas stations.
Pakistan has a history of sectarian violence, mostly blamed on rival majority Sunni and minority Shiite extremist groups.
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as the creepy guy from 'married with children' said in 'wayne's world': "well, the world's a twisted place"...
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