Senegalese Youths Burn Church [Kingdom Hall]

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Senegalese Youths Burn Church [Kingdom Hall]

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Senegalese Youths Burn Church, Destroy Bar


The Associated Press
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Published: Sunday, Jun. 26, 2011 - 9:44 am

DAKAR, Senegal -- Witnesses say hundreds of Muslim youths burned a church in a neighborhood on the northern part of the capital.

Mama Faye, 24, says she and hundreds of others on Sunday went to a Jehovah's Witness church on the fringes of their Yoff neighborhood and interrupted a sermon with rioting. She says after churchgoers left they burned the church. She says they also destroyed a nearby bar.

Faye says riot police arrived and started clashing with the rioters on the streets.

A doctor at a local hospital said at least 37 people were injured in the clashes. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not permitted to speak to press.

Theirno Mbeugne, spokesman for a local imam association, said the head imam had asked the youth to march. He said the imams did not endorse the destruction, "but they do think that the youth had reason."


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