Two Muslim Teenagers Killed in India Over Accusation of Cow Theft
A police official said the teenagers had been spotted untying two cows in a pasture on Sunday.
When the teenagers, identified as Riazuddin Ali, 18,
and Abu Hanifa, 16, broke free and tried to flee, the crowd chased them for a mile and a half, the police official, Debaraj Upadhay, chief of Nagaon District, said.
One was dead on arrival and the other died minutes after arriving, said Pinaki Chakraborty, a police officer who took the two to the hospital.
By HARI KUMARMAY 1, 2017
NEW DELHI — Villagers in the northeastern Indian state of Assam beat to death two Muslim teenagers
they suspected of stealing cows, the latest in a string of mob assaults in the country.
Over the last two years, Muslims in India have been attacked in a series of similar episodes, often by "cow
protection" groups who said they had caught Muslims transporting the animals, legally or illegally.
" he said. that They should have caught them and handed them over to police,