Omg! See What Will Happen to 5 Pakistani Muslims Who Killed Christian Couple Over Blasphemy by Burning Them to Death (Photo)

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Omg! See What Will Happen to 5 Pakistani Muslims Who Killed Christian Couple Over Blasphemy by Burning Them to Death (Photo)

A Pakistani anti-terror court has sentenced five people to death over the killing of a Christian couple who were lynched and burned in a kiln after being falsely accused of blasphemy, AFP reports.

The killing of Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi sparked widespread outrage in Pakistan saw other Christian families living near their home in Punjab flee the area in fear.

However, it was discovered that the couple had been falsely accused of tossing out pages of the Quran along with the rubbish, desecrating the Muslim holy book.

According to AFP, blasphemy is legally punishable by death in the deeply conservative Muslim country, where even unproven accusations can stir violence. But critics say the laws are abused to wage personal vendettas, often against Christians.

Witnesses described how an angry mob of hundreds of people set upon the couple near the town of Kot Radha Kishan in Punjab in 2014, attacking them and then throwing their bodies into a brick kiln.

It is unclear whether they were still alive when tossed into the kiln.

Riaz Anjum, the lawyer representing the couple's family, said a total of 103 people had been charged in the case. But the court in the eastern city of Lahore had acquitted 90, including the owner of the brick kiln.

He had been accused of locking the couple up as they tried to flee for fear they would default on their debt to him.

Apart from the five sentenced to hang, eight others were given two years' imprisonment.

“The five people awarded the death sentence were involved in dragging, beating and burning the couple while the other eight played a supportive role according to the judgement,” Anjum said.

Senior prosecutor Khurram Khan confirmed the ruling.

After the killing of the couple, it had been discovered that the family was framed up and falsely accused of burning the Muslim holy book, but instead the couple were burning pages used by Shahzad's father, a faith healer with inscriptions in many languages for his work, shortly before the incident. The family was burning documents that belonged to him.

It's not clear when the convicted killers will be hanged.