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From Times Wire Reports

A mob of youths threw bricks at a KFC restaurant and smashed windows at an American-owned gas station after a funeral for a Shiite Muslim doctor who was gunned down in Karachi, apparently by Sunnis.

Police fired tear gas to disperse more than 2,000 demonstrators, most of them Shiites, who also burned a police checkpoint and broke windows at two other gas stations operated by the Pakistan State Oil Co.

The anger over the killings of Dr. Ibn-e-Hasan and another Shiite, shopkeeper Syed Wajhi Haider, appeared to spill over into anti-American sentiments.

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