LAHORE, Pakistan: Hundreds of Muslims descended on a police station in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, snatched a man suspected of blasphemy from his cell, and took him outside and lynched him, police said on Saturday.

Senior police officer Babar Sarfaraz Alpa said a man identified only as Waris had been in police custody for desecrating pages of a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book.

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