In Elazig, an eastern city, a mob attacked a Kurdish neighbourhood, raising the spectre of inter-communal violence.

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Police fired on an angry mob, killing two people, in the city of Khairpur in the Sindh province, Geo TV reported.

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Heskel Haddad, an 11-year-old boy was finishing a festive meal and preparing to celebrate the Jewish festival of Shavuot, oblivious to the angry mob that was about to take over the city.

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Then a mob set fire to a church in the eastern city of Ujung Pandang.

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Given the dominance Medan's approximately 300, 000 Chinese have over the city's wealth and commerce, the mob never had to look far to find an appropriate target.

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Last year, the phenomenon emerged in other cities, including London and Philadelphia, where the city cited the culprits as members of a "flash mob" who decided to gather at a given place via e-mail and social media.

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On March 31, 2004, four Americans working as guards for the private security company Blackwater were ambushed and killed by insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja, the charred remains of two of them dragged away by a mob and hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River.

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This is what happens when a city is cut off from the rest of the country by desert, developed by the Mob, built on broken get-rich-quick dreams and where visitors outnumber locals nearly 20 to one.

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