AFP photographer shot at Pakistan anti-Charlie Hebdo protest

[Bosonic]

Source: AFP

AFP photographer Asif Hassan was shot Friday while covering an anti-Charlie Hebdo protest by religious party activists outside the French Consulate in Karachi, but appeared to be out of danger following surgery.

"The bullet struck his lung, and passed through his chest. He is out of immediate danger and he has spoken to his colleagues," Doctor Seemi Jamali, a spokeswoman for Karachi's Jinnah Hospital where Hassan was taken, told AFP.

Read more: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp-photographer-shot-pakistan-anti-charlie-hebdo-protest-112500633.html#ThBVpqX

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Pakistan police clash with anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters

Police fired water cannon and bullets into the air as they clashed with anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters outside the French consulate in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi.

The protesters belonged to the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami religious party, which is holding nationwide rallies against the depiction of the prophet Muhammad by the French satirical weekly.
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Abdul Khalique Shaikh, a senior police officer in southern Karachi, told Reuters: “AFP photographer Asif Hasan suffered wounds resulting from gunshots fired by ... protesters, police have not opened fire.”

A Reuters photographer at the scene said that many protesters appeared to be armed.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/16/pakistan-police-clash-anti-charlie-hebdo-protesters

[barbtries]

2. i'm sick of religion.

it makes people stupid and hateful. whatever happened to love.