MANSEHRA, Nov 16: The two seminary students killed in the Rawalpindi Ashura firing on Friday were buried in Battagram on Saturday.

Mohammad Majid was buried in Kharari village and Rehman Shah in Jaswal village after funeral prayers.

Later, a large number of people took to the streets in Battagram to protest the killings. Shouting slogans against the government, they demanded arrest of the culprits and exemplary punishment for them.

On the occasion, the speakers, including Mohman Shah, said the people responsible for Rawalpindi killings should be taken to task without delay.

They said innocent, unarmed seminary students were killed and if their killers were not arrested and punished within the next 24 hours, then the local residents would agitate.

Also in Mansehra, several people took out a rally on Abbottabad Road to protest the Rawalpindi killings.

With participants shouting slogans against the government, the rally ended at the central square after marching through the city.

The speakers, including Maulana Waqarul Haq Usman, Maulana Fazal Bari and Maulana Rafiqur Rehman Qamar, demanded early arrest of killers and exemplary punishment for them.

They threatened agitation over the government’s failure to arrest killers.

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