Mexican mob lynches eight-year-old's alleged killer
The Hindu
An angry mob lynched a woman suspected of murdering an eight-year-old girl in a popular tourist city in southern Mexico that has been plagued by organized crime.
An angry mob lynched a woman suspected of murdering an eight-year-old girl in a popular tourist city in southern Mexico that has been plagued by organized crime.
Residents on March 28 blocked one of the main streets of Taxco after the child's body was found on a highway.
The Guerrero state prosecutor's office said that it was treating the girl's death as a suspected femicide and the lynching as a qualified homicide.
The girl's family had received anonymous telephone calls demanding a ransom after she disappeared on March 27, Mexican media reported, quoting a relative.
Earlier, security camera footage had circulated showing the suspects allegedly putting a black bag in the trunk of a car, prompting suspicions that it contained the girl's body.
A mob gathered outside a house where a woman and two men were located, demanding justice.
In the absence of arrest warrants, the crowd dragged out the suspects and beat them with sticks.
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