Linchan and the fire of an alleged thief in Puebla

Puebla.- An alleged thief he was lynched during the day yesterday, the victim was beaten and lit fire by locals since he was accused of stealing and stabbing two people in one of the accesses from the center of Abastos de Huixcolotla.

The incident occurred around 11 am at Gate 6, where the subject allegedly assaulted a three-person knife.

The plaintiffs immediately alerted neighbors and merchants, who arrested the man and brutally beat him on the Puebla-Tehuacán federal highway; the alleged aggressor was also stabbed.

Although the fact was reported to the authorities, angry mob prevented them from intervening to save the subject.

Around 1:30 pm, after being beaten, the crowd sprayed gasoline and set it on fire.

In front of the presciencia of a hundred elements of the army, the federal police and the police of state, they could not do anything since the people involved dispersed in the zone, where they left the body of the man semidesnudo and in agony.

Although the rescuers arrived at the site, they could not enter because of the risk posed by the crowd. This is only when people have dispersed that paramedics have been able to deal with the subject seriously burned to the third degree and giving it contusive blows.

Although the alleged thief was admitted to the hospital, he was eventually declared dead.

The images that circulated in social networks whose victim was between 25 and 30 years old, with short hair and, as a special sign, with a tattoo on the chest.

The body was transferred to the Tepeaca morgue as an unknown, while the state Attorney General opened the corresponding investigation case.