Villagers Lynch Man For Stabbing His 3 Neighbors To Death

Villagers lynched a man after he hacked three people to death and injured six others in Cumilla, a city in Bangladesh, on Wednesday.

Police said the accused, identified as 35-year-old Mokhlesur Rahman, killed his three neighbors, including an 11-year-old boy. The 16-year-old daughter of one of the victims said the accused killed her mother by hacking her throat before injuring her father and grandmother. She added that there was no enmity between her family and the accused.

The 15-year-old daughter of another victim said Rahman killed her mother in the paddy field before attacking her brother. She added that the man also tried to attack her but she managed to escape. Soon after the incident, the accused was beaten to death by the angry villagers.

"Mokhlesur Rahman attacked Anwara and the two others in Radhanagar area around 11 a.m. (1:00 am EDT) on Wednesday and stabbed them repeatedly with a sharp weapon, leaving them dead on the spot. Later, locals managed to catch him and beat him up, leaving him dead,” a police officer said.

Though the villagers told the police the accused was “mentally ill,” Rahman’s wife, who was detained for interrogation, denied the allegations by saying, “We have three daughters and a son. My husband was not mentally ill or a drug addict.” The investigation was ongoing and the motive behind the killing was not known.

In another incident in Bangladesh on Wednesday, villagers lynched a man suspecting him to be a kidnapper. Police said the locals beat an unidentified man up near a railway station after they found his behavior suspicious. Police rushed the man to the hospital with critical injuries after rescuing him from the crowd. However, he succumbed to injuries on the way to the hospital. His body was sent for autopsy and the investigation was ongoing.