Update | Three killed as Pakistani police open fire on demonstrators

A man was killed after Pakistani police opened fire on protestors who set fire to a cinema during a protest against the anti-Islam video ‘Innocence of Muslims’.

The day was declared a public holiday by the government for people to demonstrate against the video which sparked plenty of unrest in the Muslim world over the last 10 days and consumed the lives of at least 31 people.

A driver for a Pakistani television station, Mohammad Amir, was the latest victim of the furore when he shot while in his vehicle in the northwest city of Peshawar.

Kashif Mahmood, a reporter for ARY TV who was also in the car at the time, said the shots came through the windshield of the vehicle.

Footage broadcast on ARY TV showed doctors trying, unsuccessfully, to save Amir at the hospital.

Another protester who was shot during a demonstration in the city also died, while in Karachi, armed protesters sought cover among a group of 15,000 and fired on police, killing one and wounding another. The crowd also burned two cinemas and a bank.

Violent rallies against the film have been ongoing in Pakistan for almost a week killing three people despite government urging people to protest peacefully.

Several hundred protests ransacked and torched a cinema where police were forced to open fire while more protesters also set fire to a toll booth on the outskirts of the capital Islamabad.

Tears gas was fired by the police at the angry crowds in both Peshawar  and Islamabad to calm hold off angry mobs.

Calling on the international community to pass laws to prevent people from insulting the Prophet Mohammed, Pakistani Prime Minister Pervaiz Ashraf said that an attack on the prophet was an attack on the core belief of 1.5 billion Muslims.