A group of approximately 60 beat Mohammad Akhlaq with sticks and bricks and left son with severe injuries in Bisara,IndiaIndian police arrested eight people and were searching for two more on Wednesday after villagers allegedly beat a Muslim farmer to death and severely injured his son after hearing rumours that the family was eating beef, a taboo for many among India’s majority Hindu population.
A mob of approximately 60 Hindus became incensed when a temple announced that the family had been slaughtering cows and storing the beef in their house in Bisara, and a village approximately 25 miles (45km) south-east of the Indian capital New Delhi,said district justice of the peace Nagendra Pratap Singh.
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Source: theguardian.com