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Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 14 2018, @02:55PM   
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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Original Submission

• Where? Where? (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:49PM (1 child)

  by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:49PM (#761790)

  On August 29, a little after midday, Maura Cordero, the owner of an arts and crafts shop in the small town of Acatlán in the central Mexican state of Puebla

  It's in the first sentence of the article, god damn

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• Re:Where? (Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:56PM

  by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:56PM (#761793)

  I wonder if this is turning into the Latin American equivalent of SWATing somebody

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