Mob Burned Pregnant Mother in Front of Children, Then Tried to Set 18-Month-Old on Fire

 A Pakistani mob burned a pregnant woman and her husband in front of their two young children after accusing them of blasphemy and then tried to burn their youngest daughter.

According to reports, 4-year-old Sonia Rami and her 18-month-old sister Ponam were forced to watch as a mob of roughly 1,200 people burned their parents while chanting ‘God is Great.’

Their cousin, 11-year-old Muhammad Faryad, says he watched as his aunt’s body twitched in the flames and his uncle was dragged, viciously beaten, and burned.

“I saw a young man with a small beard who was wearing white clothes and a white cap and other man wearing blue clothes,” Muhammad told reporters. “They were both leading the assault. The man in white hit her belly with his axe. There was blood.”

“People were very angry,” Muhammad says. “They were shouting that they would teach lesson to the blasphemer Christians. The majority of them were young people carrying spades, hatchets, and clubs in their hands.”

The pair was thrown into a kiln used to make bricks as the crowd cheered.

The boy’s mother says, “They also wanted to throw [18-month-old Ponam] in the kiln but somebody snatched her from them. Their middle daughter was witnessing it with me. When I ran away from the spot, I could not find her. I thought that they had also killed her.”

The family was able to find both girls and learned that it was a television camera man who snatched the baby away from the mob.

The parents, said to be devout Christians, were accused of burning the Quran after they burned a relative’s possessions which included documents with Arabic verses.