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

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: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:50PM (#761812)

    The Trolley Problem ceases to be a problem when the crowd you hit with the train was trying to murder the person you diverted the train from.

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