3 more die in Pakistan cartoon protests

Muslim demonstrations against controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed led to three deaths Wednesday in Pakistani.

In the eastern city of Lahore, one person was killed by a police bullet when protesters failed to disperse amid clouds of tear gas, the BBC reported. Tuesday, two protesters were killed in Lahore.

Thousands of protesters attacked shops and businesses in the main business district in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province. The mob set fire to a KFC fast-food restaurant, leading police to use tear gas. Shots were fired, and an 8-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet.

A second person was killed when a power line fell on the protesters, the report said.

The cartoons feature Mohammed with a bomb-shaped turban and other depictions Muslims find offensive, and were first published by a Danish newspaper in September. They have increasingly been turning up in other Western media.

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