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Guatemala
Vigilantes Kill 5th Suspect In 3
Days
GUATEMALA (AP) — A mob beat a suspected
criminal to death Sunday and threatened to
burn three women who were with the victim,
authorities said Sunday. It was Guatemala's
fifth vigilante killing in three days.
Hours later, police rescued three men being
threatened by an angry crowd in another part
of this poor Central American country, where
people frequently take justice into their
own hands in remote areas.
The National Civil Police said the latest
deadly attack occurred in Panahachel, about
150 kilometers (90 miles) east of the
capital, where a mob fatally beat a man
thought to be a criminal.
The crowd also doused gasoline on three
women accompanying the victim and threatened
to set them on fire, but the women were
rescued by police officers, officials said.
Officers had to fend the crowd off for an
hour as it tried to get the women back and
burned four patrol cars.
Sunday night, some 800 people tried to kill
three men suspected of being criminals in
San Antonio Suchitepequez, about 160
kilometers (100 miles) southwest of the
capital, but police were able to rescue the
men.
It was the third straight day of mob
violence.
On Friday, a crow in northwestern
Huehuetenango burned three men alive because
they were suspected of kidnapping and
killing a young woman, authorities said.
On Saturday, villagers in the eastern
indigenous community of Las Pozas also
burned a man alive after accusing him of
robbing and killing an elderly man. |
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