They lynched a man in India while he was stripping an ox

One man died and three others were wounded in a lynching when they were stripping a dead ox, said Saturday the state police of Jharkhand, India.

The incident occurred on Thursday when a group of men from the local Catholic community they stripped the corpse of an ox in a field and were brutally attacked by other Hindu people. " armed with iron bars and sticks ", said the spokesman of the insane policeman, Mr. L. Meena.

The three wounded were taken to the hospital. Two men were arrested for the attack and five others are fugitives, said Meena.

Cows are sacred animals for Hindus and, according to the NGO Human Rights Watch, at least 44 people died between May 2015 and December of the year It is produced during similar attacks of Hindu groups acting on their own.

Opponents of Prime Minister Narendra Modi say these groups they have been strengthened since the arrival in power in 2014 of their nationalist party Hindu, the party Bharatiya Janata (BJP).