Mob Kill 3 Nigerians Accused Of Child Kidnap In Bissau

[Shola Sholaz]

Three Nigerians accused of kidnapping a child were lynched to death on Tuesday by an angry mob of young rioters in Bissau, according to a hospital source.
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The trio was killed after the disappearance of a young boy on Tuesday morning in the capital of Guinea-Bissau.
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A rumour quickly spread across the city that the child had been taken by a group of Nigerians, prompting an angry crowd to gather which security forces were unable to control.
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An AFP journalist saw two of the Nigerian bodies in the morgue.
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Hundreds of angry rioters, mostly young and armed with stones and bottles, managed to grab one of the suspected kidnappers from a police car as officers stood by powerless, according to the AFP journalist.