ISLAMABAD, Feb. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Two persons died and more than 40 were injured, including police, as violent protest against the publication of blasphemous cartoons continued in Pakistan on Wednesday.

    According to a Geo TV report, a dead 7-year-old boy was brought to hospital, who had received bullets in head in Peshawar, the capital city of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Another died when he hit an electric poll.

    Officials and reports said that police fired tear gas and used batons to disperse thousands of protestors, who burnt offices of aforeign mobile company, bus station, foreign fast food restaurant and police vehicle in Peshawar,

    NWFP police chief Rifat Pasha was quoted as saying that the "saboteurs and miscreants" joined the protestors and resorted to violence.

    He told Geo that paramilitary forces had been deployed in the city to help police restore peace.

    The provincial government announced closure of all educational institutions in the city to avoid any violent incidents in future.     

    The demonstrators set on fire two offices of Norwegian mobile company Telenor in different parts of the city. The protestors ransacked a business center famous for foreign goods in the outskirts of Peshawar. Several protestors looted shops in the market.

    Provincial Chief Minister Akram Kahn Durran told a press conference that those involved in violence would not be spared.

    On Tuesday, at least two died in the protest-linked violence inthe eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Enditem