Two criminals murdered a taxi driver and angry people burned them alive

The incident occurred in Guatemala when about 500 people did justice to each other and burned alive two criminals who had murdered a taxi driver.

Local media said men were accused of extorting money taxi drivers who work in this area of ​​vast commercial flow, for the operations of Puerto Santo Tomás de Castilla.

However, a police officer in Izabal, who did not identify himself, said that no extortion against taxi drivers had been reported to this police station. place, and badured that the two victims also had no basic information and that their profiles were clean.

An enraged mob burned alive two men accused of killing a taxi driver who apparently did not pay the extortion of 100 quetzales ($ 12.95).

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The authorities explained that a group of people had first managed to capture the two men, who had been taken to the police station there.

However, when the soldiers transported the suspects to another site, about 500 angry settlers managed to forcibly arrest the two alleged murderers of the victim. taxi driver They were beaten and burned alive a few meters from the police headquarters.

The lynchings have become common in Guatemala because of the mistrust of the inhabitants in the security and justice organs, at the heart of a wave of violence that is nearly 6,000 deaths per year. Nearly half of the crimes are linked to gangs and drug trafficking.