Pak teen cuts off own hand for 'blasphemy'

January 19, 2016 01:29

A Pakistani teenager cut off his hand after a Muslim cleric wrongly accused him of blasphemy, a local police chief said.

Mohammad Anwar, a 15-year-old from Hujra Shah Muqeem, a village in Punjab province about 120 kilometers southwest of Lahore, was being hailed as a hero by locals for his actions, station house officer Nausher Ali, the local police chief, was quoted as saying by CNN.

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