MARDAN: A Media Studies student at Abd
ul Wali Khan University
was shot to death and another was left wounded on charges of sharing ‘blasphemous’ content on social media, witnesses and police said on Thursday.
The university
was shut down for
an indefinite period after the violence. The hostels have also been vacated.
Mardan Police Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Alam Shinwari said that
the stud
ent was accused of running Facebook pages which allegedly published blasphemous content.
He was assaulted by a group of students and appears to have succumbed to a gunshot wound, the DIG said.
