Village Mob Lynches Man in Revenge
About 200 people dragged a neighbor from his house in a Tzotzil Indian village in southern Mexico and beat him to death in revenge for another man’s death.
Vicente Mendez got into a fight Sunday with Luis de Jesus Gallegos, who fell during the fracas, hit his head and died in Pantelho, near San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas state, El Universal newspaper said.
Mendez went home, but a local leader called on villagers to detain him, and a mob of about 200 pulled him from his house and beat him to death. Seven people were arrested, officials told the newspaper.
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