LAHORE, Pakistan: Pakistan's police arrested more than four dozen suspects in the kidnapping and lynching of a man already detained on charges of blasphemy, officials said on Monday.
The mass arrest came two days after hundreds of enraged Muslims descended on a police station in the Nankana district of eastern Punjab province after they had been alerted that a man identified only as Waris desecrated a copy of Islam's holy book, the Quran.
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