Six people have reportedly been killed and three US Embassy staff injured in Karachi, Pakistan.
Gunfire has reportedly been heard near the US Consulate General in Karachi after hundreds of people stormed the building in the southern port city.
A mob of people has stormed the US consulate in Kerachi with fires set as crowds call for ‘vengeance’ for events in Iran.
The news comes as massive crowds gathered in Iran to mourn the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran. Meanwhile other Iranians took to the streets around the world to celebrate the death of the Iranian Supreme Leader.
Protestors attacked the US building in Karachi, Pakistan
Protestors attacked the US building in Karachi, Pakistan
Images showed the crowds attacking thick glass windows at the embassy in Karachi using makeshift weapons. Protestors threw stones at police during the violent unrest.
Police and paramilitary forces used batons and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd, said Mohammad Jawad, a police official. At least one protester was killed and several others were wounded in clashes between protesters and security forces, he said.
At least six people have been killed on those clashes and at least eight have been wounded, according to officials. The crowd are said to be made up of Shiite Muslims, according to reports, the same branch of Islam that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei belonged to, with roughly 200–260 million adherents around the world.
The attack on the consulate came hours after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack carried out by Israel and the United States.
The news came as Iranian missiles continued to be launched in retaliation after US Israeli strikes rained down on the country yesterday.
Iran fired missiles at targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states Sunday after vowing massive retaliation for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the United States and Israel, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to threaten Tehran against further escalation.
Iran acknowledged 86-year-old Khamenei’s death in the joint Israeli-American airstrike Saturday at his Tehran office, which has thrown the future of the Islamic Republic into question and raised the risk of regional instability.
“This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country,” Trump said.
Iran’s Cabinet vowed that this “great crime will never go unanswered” and the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened to launch its “most intense offensive operation” ever, targeting Israeli and American bases.
“You have crossed our red line and must pay the price,” Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said in a televised address Sunday.See_More…