An alleged paedophile accused of raping and killing a four-year-old girl has been dragged out of his cell and killed.
An angry mob stormed the police station where he was being held, hauled him along the street then hanged him from a tree.
Earlier this week a child was found dead in Reyes, Bolivia, while visiting the area with her parents for her grandmother’s funeral.
But she vanished and when her body was later found, investigators quickly realised the little girl had been raped and murdered.
Hours after the body was recovered, police arrested a suspect. But without waiting for a verdict in a court case or indeed to find out what the evidence was against the suspect, angry locals soon stormed the station and took the man out.
They started beating him and it was soon clear that someone in the crowd had brought a rope. The man was hung on the street just minutes later.
Police officers were powerless and outnumbered and could not do anything to stop the public lynching.
Ivan Zambrana, the department director of the Special Force for Crime Fighting, told local media: ‘The dead bodies, both the girl’s and the lynching victim’s, have been moved to Palos Blancos [near Bolivian capital La Paz], the case is under investigation.’
Nobody has been arrested for the lynching, but the police are currently questioning locals and using social media videos of the incident in tackling the case.
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