Pakistani police have arrested at least 43 suspects in connection with Tuesday's killing of a Christian couple accused of desecrating the Koran.
Reports say the couple were beaten to death by hundreds of locals who then burned their bodies in the brick kiln where they worked in Punjab province.
Police say the suspects are due to appear in court in Lahore. About 200 people protested against the killings.
Allegations of blasphemy are often used to settle personal grievances.
In May gunmen in the city of Multan shot dead a lawyer, Rashid Rehman, who had been defending a university lecturer accused of blasphemy.
And last month a Pakistani court upheld the death penalty for Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy in 2010 - a case which sparked a global outcry.
Since the 1990s, scores of Christians have been found guilty of desecrating the Koran or of blasphemy.
While most of them have been sentenced to death by the lower courts, many sentences have been overturned due to lack of evidence.
However, correspondents say even the mere accusation of blasphemy is enough to make someone a target for hardliners.
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