Muslim youths attack child and set him on fire in Pakistan because he is a Christian

The teenager from Lahore in Punjab province Pakistan, who has been identified only as Nuaman, had just left a local shop when he was beaten and burnt with Kerosene.

The boy, who is now being treated at Mayo Hospital in Lahore, described how he was approached by the two Muslim youths as they left Friday prayers at their local mosque.

They asked him what his religion was and then, when he replied he was a Christian, they started beating him.

Nuaman tired to escaped but as he fled the two other boys poured Kerosene on him and set him on fire.

He said he ran – still on fire – until he reached a mound of sand which he rolled around in. Nuaman said some members of his local community helped him put out his burning clothes by pouring more sand on top of him, Breitbart news network reported.

The 14-year-old, who lives with his uncle, has said he did not know who had attacked him but said he would be able to identify the assailants if he saw them again.

Three weeks ago in Pakistan, in the country’s Sheikhupura District, a 17-year-old Christian narrowly escaped with his life following a similar religiously motivated attack.

Sunny Masih was seized by a Muslim mob, beaten and thrown in a flaming kiln. He also suffered severe and extensive burns in the incident.

There are fears that both assaults were acts of retaliation motivated by a Christian attack on two members of the Pakistani Taliban, believed to be behind bomb attacks on two churches in Lahore in March.

The militant grop detonated two bombs outside churches in the city, killing 17 and wounding a further 80.

In the aftermath of the attacks Christians in Lahore took to the streets demanding government protection.

Muslim hostilities appear to be on the upswing in Pakistan in the wake of the recent disturbances. Chritians make up only 2 percent of Pakistan’s 182 million people. 

They have been targets of increasing violence in recent years.

In 2013, 80 people were killed and more than 100 others wounded after twin suicide attacks were carried out at the All Saint's Church in Peshawar, in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on the country's Christians.

(dailymail.co.uk)