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According to an eyewitness, protesters armed with guns and Molotov cocktails set fire to part of a military base in Skardu, that's in the Pakistani-administered territory of Baltistan in the Himalayan mountains.
As the eyewitness spoke to NPR, there was an audible spurt of gunfire.
It came after local outlet Premier Times reported that protesters in Skardu and another town called Gilgit set fire to UN officers.
Across the border in Indian-administered Kargil, one local outlet, the Srinagar News Service, shared footage of tens of thousands of people in a square where they shouted, death to America, death to Israel.
Other protests took place in the Indian city of Lucknow.
According to an eyewitness, protesters armed with guns and Molotov cocktails set fire to part of a military base in Skardu, that's in the Pakistani-administered territory of Baltistan in the Himalayan mountains.
As the eyewitness spoke to NPR, there was an audible spurt of gunfire.
It came after local outlet Premier Times reported that protesters in Skardu and another town called Gilgit set fire to UN offices.
Across the border in Indian-administered Kargil, one local outlet, the Srinagar News Service, shared footage of tens of thousands of people in a square where they shouted, death to America, death to Israel.
Other protests took place in the Indian city of Lucknow.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was revered by many Shiites as a supreme leader of a Shiite-majority nation and as a spiritual leader in his own right.
So as news of his assassination spread, Pakistani media reports that protesters converged outside the U.S.
consulate in Karachi, a city with a sizable Shiite population.
Reuters reported the protesters breached the outer wall of the highly secure complex.
Multiple videos shared on social media of the protest, filmed at different angles and at different times, show some of the protesters using metal rods to smash one structure.