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Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 14 2018, @02:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the Wizard's-First-Rule dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Two innocent men have been burned alive by a massive lynch mob after WhatsApp rumours branded them child abductors.

A large crowd gathered outside the police station after rumours spread about the two men.

A mob dragged two men out of a police station, savagely beat them and then set them on fire, killing them, after a false rumour was spread on WhatsApp about the pair being child kidnappers.

The mother of one of the men made a desperate plea for the crowd to stop as she watched the lynching unfold on a Facebook livestream.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46145986

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:11PM (2 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:11PM (#761769) Homepage Journal

    I don't know what group you're talking about. You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow them if I thought there was something wrong. You may have groups in there that are totally fine and it would be very unfair. So give me a list of the groups and I'll let you know. Honestly, I don't know what the KKK is.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:10PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:10PM (#761877)

    Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, you trolling piece of crap.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @04:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @04:30AM (#762048)

      the opposite to "lynching"? that's easy. it's called "voting".