Decoits attack Hindu temple with rocket launchers in Pakistan

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In Kashmore, the assailants attacked the temple and the adjoining homes belonging to Hindus under the jurisdiction of the Ghouspur police station..

After the firing noise, a police unit led by Kashmore-Kandhkot SSP Irfan Sammo reached the scene.ANIPakistan:.

A Hindu temple was attacked with rocket launchers by a gang of dacoits in the Southern Sindh province of Pakistan on Sunday, a senior police official said..

The assailants fired indiscriminately at the temple built by the local Hindu community on Sunday, prompting a police unit led by Kashmore-Kandhkot SSP Irfan Sammo to reach the scene...

Meanwhile, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said it was alarmed by reports of "deteriorating law and order in the districts of Kashmore and Ghotki in Sindh, where some 30 members of the Hindu community - including women and children - have allegedly been held hostage by organised criminal gangs"...

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