Police in Pakistan detain dozens of people over lynching of Sri Lankan

Businessmen pose to put candles and rose petals next to the portrait of a Sri Lankan manager of a sports equipment factory, as they pay tribute to him outside the office of Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Sialkot, Pakistan, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. Police arrested multiple suspects and detained dozens of others in the lynching of the Sri Lankan employee at the sports equipment factory in eastern Pakistan, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Shahid Ikram)

Police have arrested 13 suspects and detained dozens of others over the lynching of a Sri Lankan employee at a sports equipment factory in eastern Pakistan, officials said.

A mob of hundreds of enraged Muslims descended on the factory in the district of Sialkot in Punjab province on Friday after the Sri Lankan manager was accused of blasphemy.