Police investigate mob killing in India
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By Staff Writers, AP
AP
Monday, Jun 29, 2015
Police are investigating the mob killing of a school director in
northern India after two of the school's students were discovered dead,
officials said Monday.
The mob attacked the boarding school's
director on Sunday after the bodies of two boys aged 10 and 11 were
found in a nearby pond, Nalanda district police Superintendent
Siddhartha Kumar Jain said.
The students had disappeared a day
earlier from the school grounds, and villagers accused school staff of
killing them and dumping them in the pond. Autopsies later showed the
boys had drowned.
Local TV stations broadcast video of the man
being beaten with sticks and writhing on the ground as other people
watched and stomped on his chest, stomach and limbs. He died of his
injuries Sunday night.
When police arrived, the mob allegedly
pelted them with stones and injured six officers. Police suspended an
officer for failing to stop the attack in Nirpur village, about 90
kilometers (55 miles) southeast of Patna, the capital of Bihar state.
Residents
of the director's home village held angry protests after the man's
death, blocking road and train traffic and setting a vehicle on fire.
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