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Mob sets fire to 'thieves'
17/05/2008 18:08 - (SA)
Karachi - Pakistani police say bus passengers have caught and set fire to two alleged thieves, just days after a mob killed three suspected robbers in a similar fashion.
Police officer Naveed Khwaja says the two men snatched money, watches and cellphones at gunpoint on a bus on Saturday in the southern city of Karachi.
Khwaja says passengers pursued them when they tried to escape, beat them, doused them with petrol, then set them on fire. He says the two men were hospitalised with serious burns.
On Wednesday, residents of a Karachi apartment building set fire to three alleged robbers, killing them all.
Pakistan's new government has vowed to improve law and order in Karachi, a crime-infested city of 15 million.
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