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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) by legont on Thursday November 15 2018, @01:08AM (1 child)

    by legont (4179) on Thursday November 15 2018, @01:08AM (#761995)

    I presume you include wearpons technology in your analysys as well.

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  • (Score: 2) by ilsa on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:15PM

    by ilsa (6082) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:15PM (#762269)

    Of course. Look at how much more efficient hunter-gatherers became when the first spear was invented?