Pakistani protestors attack US consulate in Karachi

Scores of men forced their way into the United States Consulate in Pakistan's Karachi on Sunday, tensions escalated in the Middle East amid US-Israel-Iran attacks and the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was announced.

Visuals showed police clashing with protesters on the street outside the consulate. While protesters threw stones, police fired tear gas in an attempt to disperse them. Another video showed scores of men inside the gate compound of the consulate, trying to break glasses of windows and doors to enter the main building. Some portions of the building were allegedly set on fire.

The Iranian Embassy in Pakistan issued a statement condemning the "cowardly, hideous and barbaric terrorist act of targeting" the leader. It remembered Khamenei's devotion to the "ideals of independence, dignity, and resistance".

Anger over the death of Khamenei, a prominent Shia leader, in the holy month of Ramzan spread from the Middle East to Asia. In Iraq's Baghdad too, protesters stormed the US Embassy as security forces tried to disperse them using tear gas.