WORLD BRIEFING / ECUADOR
An angry mob dragged two robbery suspects from a police station in the southern coastal city of Valencia and burned them to death, authorities said.
A police statement said the crowd of about 800 people also set fire to the station.
Eighteen officers were injured.
Pedro Cruz, a resident, told Teleamazonas TV that it “was the only solution we had because everybody was getting robbed. We couldn’t even walk the streets.”
Prosecutor Cesar Manzo promised an investigation and called the incident “a barbarity that cannot continue in civilized society.”
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