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PESHAWAR, Feb 15 (AFP): Two people, including a child, were killed and dozens injured Wednesday in protests against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a hospital official said, bringing Pakistan's death toll from the riots to four.
"We have received the bodies of two people, an eight-year-old boy and a 28-year-old man," Yousuf Pervez, deputy medical superintendent at Lady Reading Hospital in the northwestern city of Peshawar, told AFP.
"The 28-year-old, named Feroz, fell on an electric wire that is said to have snapped in police firing," he said. "The eight-year-old boy, who was identified only as Mohammed, died when a bullet hit his head during aerial firing."
He did not say whether police or protesters had fired the bullet that killed the boy.
"There are 30 people wounded. The injured include people hit by teargas shells," added Pervez. "Four or five are in a serious condition. Their wounds are deep and we are worried about them."
Peshawar police spokesman Riaz Ahmed earlier confirmed one death and a similar number of injuries.
Protesters also torched a KFC outlet and other western businesses in Peshawar Wednesday, a day after two demonstrators were shot dead during mass riots in the eastern city of Lahore.
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