Protesters torch KFC outlet in Pakistan, 6 dead

[Bhaisahab]

Six people were burnt alive when a mob protesting a suicide bombing of a mosque torched an outlet of an American fast food chain in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said Tuesday.

one more paragraph at: http://nation.com.pk/daily/may-2005/31/latest.php

[Scurrilous]

1. 6 KFC employees burnt to death after mosque blast in Karachi

http://english.people.com.cn/200505/31/eng20050531_187755.html

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"Six employees of the US fast-food franchise Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) were burnt to death on Monday night during disturbances triggered by a suicide attack at a Shiite mosque in the restive southern port city of Karachi in Pakistan, police said Tuesday.

Some angry Shiites set fire to the KFC restaurant but the bodies of those burned were only found on Tuesday morning by police and firemen, city police chief Tariq Jamil said.

Five people including one policeman and three attackers were killed and a dozen of others injured on Monday evening in the mosque attack, which triggered disturbances in different parts of the city, leaving two oil pumps and at least four vehicles on ablaze.

Monday's suicide attack came three days after a powerful explosion occurred at a Shiite shrine last week in Islamabad, which killed about 20 people and injured over 100 others."

[varun]

2. If our allies (Pakistanis) hate us so much...

what will our enemies think of us?

[olddad56]

19. We paid their government in cash and weapons to be our allies....

The citizens of Pakistan don't hate the American people, they hate our government.

[ConfuZed]

3. Six KFC workers burned to death in Karachi violence

KARACHI (Reuters) - Six employees of American fast-food franchise KFC were burned to death in Karachi during a riot that followed a suicide attack on a mosque in the southern Pakistani city, rescue workers said on Tuesday.

Angry Shi'ites set fire to the restaurant after the mosque attack in which five people died on Monday night, but the bodies of those burned were only found on Tuesday morning, said Rizwan Edhi of the Edhi Foundation, a private emergency service.

"We recovered the bodies of the six people from the debris of the KFC early this morning.All the dead were employees of KFC," he said.

On Monday, at least five people, including two assailants, were killed in the suicide bomb attack on the Shi'ite mosque in the same Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi.

At least 18 people were wounded, four seriously, in the attack at the Mandinatul Ilm mosque, the latest incident of religious violence to hit one of Washington's main allies in its war on terrorism.

The mosque attack came just three days after a suicide bombing at a Muslim festival in Islamabad on Friday that killed at least 19 people, most of them Shi'ite Muslims,...<more>

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2005-05-31T064850Z_01_N31581117_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-SECURITY-PAKISTAN-VIOLENCE-DC.XML

[Domitan]

4. Six burnt alive as protesters torch US fast food outlet in Pakistan

http://nation.com.pk/daily/may-2005/31/latest.php

Six people were burnt alive when a mob protesting a suicide bombing of a mosque torched an outlet of an American fast food chain in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said Tuesday.
Police and firemen recovered the bodies of six Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) employees after an angry mob set the restaurant on fire late Monday following a suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim mosque here that killed five people.
"Their bodies were found during the search of KFC," city police chief Tariq Jamil told AFP.

[Rainscents]

5. I hate to say this... This will be norm for the American chain company

as the Anti-America grows in middle east. Maybe even around the world.

[SteppingRazor]

6. I could make a really, really off-color joke...

about fried food being bad for you, but I'll just keep my piece, having said too much already :evilgrin:

[RPM]

8. oh - i thought it would be a joke about Extra Crispy....

Equally off color :evilgrin:

[Domitan]

9. It's quite tame compared to my off-colour joke

Kentucky Fried People: finger-lighting good!

Gallows humour will just keep going on.

Seriously, a very horrible fate for people caught in the middle. Tragically, I can see US tourists becoming frequent targets down the road.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. See #14 (nt)

[skypilot]

7. Don't know why I didn't know this.

I know that this isn't the most salient part of the article but I had no idea that there were KFCs in Pakistan of all places. That seems really odd to me.

[Frederik]

16. They are everywhere

Coca-Cola is building a production plant in Afghanistan, or is at least planning to. The tentacles of the American corporate empire reach far and wide.

[elvisbear]

10. Neighbors tired of the giant neon chicken that they erected.

Local man named Osama Bin Laden was quoted as saying "My rods and cones are screwed up, this place needed to go!"

[ronnykmarshall]

11. I thought this was about PETA.

Whoopsie daisy!!

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. Wow. Hyperbolic much? (nt)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Karachi Fried Clerks?

Sorry. I'm truly sorry. It was stronger than me.

[Hand]

17. Must... not... confess... to... giggling...

:spank:

[Zuni]

18. we all have our moments

I often cannot resist the temptations of the lower brow

[RPM]

20. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

bad, very bad

[dArKeR]

21. Six killed in riot after mosque attack

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/06/01/2003257478