Bangladesh mobs lynch eight people over child abduction rumours
Published on: Wednesday 24 July 2019
At least eight people have been murdered by lynch mobs in Bangladesh over fabricated allegations of child abduction, police have said. Officials said the deaths were linked to rumours that children were being kidnapped and sacrificed in order to build the Padma Bridge, one of Bangladesh’s biggest infrastructure projects. A rumour that “human heads and blood are required to
News source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangladesh-lynchings-mobs-child-abduction-rumours-dhaka-a9020031.html
