KFC, Domino’s outlets face mob attacks across country

KARACHI: Several violent mobs attacked fast-food outlets of global chains in different cities of Sindh, including Karachi and MirpurKhas, while holding protests against Israeli aggression in Gaza.

As per details, the protestors turned violent and vandalized the multinational fast food outlet KFC in Mirpurkhas on late Tuesday night, throwing stones and breaking windows.

They also looted the restaurant’s kitchen and damaged furniture, along with setting part of the building on fire.

Similarly, three KFC outlets and one Domino’s Pizza restaurant were targeted, resulting in damage to the outlets but no reported injuries.

Karachi police said that over a 100 activists of a religious party attempted to ransack another outlet of the fast-food chain on M-9 motorway on Wednesday evening, but the police thwarted their plan.

Police said that around 20 suspects were arrested in Mirpuras, while nine were apprehended by police in Karachi, and separate FIRs had been lodged against miscreants.

In addition to that, another KFC outlet came under attack in Lahore’s Defense Housing Authority (DHA) when scores of people pelted it with stones, shattering windowpanes and damaging some of its portions.

Eyewitnesses say that the attack was unleashed all of a sudden by unidentified men, shattering the glass doors and windowpanes of the fast-food outlet.