LAHORE: Police have arrested four men for shattering an ancient Buddha statue found during construction work in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.
Videos have surfaced on social media showing a man breaking with a hammer an approximately 1,700 years old life-sized statue of Buddha, parts of which were still embedded underground.
Other men can be seen looking on as the statue is being destroyed while a couple of people were making videos.
The statue was discovered in Mardan’s Takht Bhai area, which was a part of the Gandhara civilization, while the workers were digging to lay the foundation for the under-construction house.
A first information report (FIR) has been registered against them under the Antiquities Act 2016, according to officials, media reports said.
(With inputs from agencies)
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