BANNU, Pakistan — Among several protests across Pakistan against French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of Islam’s prophet Muhammad, hundreds of Muslims in a terrorist-infested northwestern province stormed a Christian school Jan. 26, demanding its closure.
Some 300 protesters from local schools and colleges entered the premises of Panel High School for Boys in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan, after jumping its outer walls and forcing open the gates, principal Fredrick Farhan Das said by phone.
Das said the chaos caused a stampede that left four students of the school with minor injuries.
Police had deployed three officers at the school, who looked on as protesters, many of them armed, ransacked the school, he said. The protesters used their guns and stones to break windows of several classrooms as they shouted anti-Christian slogans.
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