LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — At least three gunmen attacked a house of worship of the Ahmadi sect in eastern Pakistan on Friday, wounding six worshippers before guards killed one of the attackers and the other two fled, police and a community spokesman said.

The attack took place in Rabwah, a city in Punjab province, said senior police officer Abdullah Ahmad. He said the assailants tried to enter the Bait-ul-Mehdi worship place during Friday prayers but were stopped by security personnel guarding the site.

Ahmadis represent a small minority in Muslim-majority Pakistan and have long faced persecution by hard-line Sunni groups who consider them heretics. Pakistan’s parliament declared Ahmadis non-Muslims in 1974, and they are barred by law from identifying as Muslims or calling their places of

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