'I'm Assamese,' pleads man as mob beats two to death suspecting them to be child lifters

Guwahati: Two youths from Guwahati were battered to death in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Friday night on suspicion of being child lifters. Police said Abhijit Nath and Nilutpal Das were on their way to the Kanthe Langshu picnic spot when their vehicle was attacked by a group of men at Panjuri Kachari village, 16 km from Dokmoka town. Eyewitnesses said the two boys were brutally hit by bamboo poles and wood, and tortured to death by a mob of ‘inebriated’ villagers. “It happened when some local informed a group of villagers about two men travelling in a black car with an abducted child. These few villagers were drinking in the roadside dhaba and immediately called upon more people to trace the car and catch them. The mob stopped the car and surrounded the two boys inside. The village elders tried to stop them from hitting the boys, but they would not listen,” said a local shopkeeper of the area. A disturbing video that emerged in local media showed the two youths begging for mercy – their face and body smeared with blood. Source: News18