GUATEMALA CITY — Members of a rural group in Guatemala exhausting hit by this week’s earthquakes lynched 5 males they accused of robbing broken properties, authorities mentioned Friday.
Guatemala’s Inside Ministry mentioned that residents of Santa Maria de Jesus organized themselves to seek for the boys after which blocked authorities who tried to detain and take them away.
In a single day, residents beat the boys with sticks and stones after which burned them in the neighborhood, which lies within the Sacatepequez division southwest of the capital.
The group nonetheless lacks electrical energy and potable water following the collection of dozens of earthquakes and aftershocks Tuesday, which killed seven folks throughout Guatemala.
Authorities didn’t instantly report any arrests within the lynchings.