Three lynched in Barisal
Monday, 13 July 2015
A group of unruly villagers have beaten three people to death in Hijla upazila in Barisal district suspecting them to be robbers. Police quoting locals said the unruly mob caught three people in Baherchar village under Barhajalia Union Parishad and lynched them. Police said the incident took place around 2am on Monday. The dead have been named as ‘Harun’, ‘Miraj’ and ‘Hanif’. Hijla Police Station OC Golam Sarwar said they gathered from locals that villagers had caught them suspecting them to be robbers and gave them a thrashing, leaving all three dead on the spot. Police recovered the bodies and brought them to the Hijla police station, according to a news agency.