Survivors of Pak church attack get death threats
PTI
Islamabad, October 31, 17:36
An elderly woman who helped police draw sketches of gunmen who killed 16 people at a church said on Wednesday that she received a phone call from one attacker warning her to "get ready for death."
Meanwhile, the authorities said 100 people have been detained for questioning about the attack on Sunday on St. Dominic's Roman Catholic church in Behawalpur, a city in south-central Pakistan.
Maryam Jalal, 70, survived the attack. Later, she gave police information as they made sketches of three of six suspects.
She said, on Tuesday she received a call from a man identifying himself as one of the attackers. He sounded furious. "I had spared the old lady on Sunday, but now she will die," the caller said. "Get ready for death," he told her. "The caller has also threatened to kill all my children," Jalal told by telephone from Behawalpur.
Police immediately put her under heavy guard. She is a close relative of S.K. Tressler, Pakistan's Minister for Minorities.
The gunmen burst into St. Dominic's during Protestant services of the Church of Pakistan, spraying the congregation with gunfire. Sixteen people were killed, including the minister and a Muslim police officer guarding the church outside.
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