A British man has been m8rdered in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest by a mob seeking justice over an alleged shooting
The crowd allegedly lynched the man, who has been identified in local reports as a British national, and b8rned him alive after storming a police station where he had been taken into custody.
The unnamed male, widely reported to be ‘English’, was held by uniformed officers on suspicion of shooting a local man d8ad, reports said.
But six hours after his arrest a crowd stormed the police station, dragged him onto the street and and set him alight in front of officers who said they were afraid to intervene.
Respected Ecuadorian newspaper Ecuavisa said the horror k!lling happened in the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve in Ecuador’s Amazon region, which is a popular eco-tourism area.
The British national is said to have been handed over to police by locals around 6am local time on Sunday before being m8rdered just after midday.
Ecuadorian newspaper Extra reported officers who arrested him decided not to intervene when a baying mob forced their way into the police station ahead of his transfer out of the area.
They stood back, the newspaper said, in order to avoid being attacked themselves and to avoid additional damage to state property.
It said police reinforcements had taken time to reach the area because of its remoteness and difficult access.
A local TV station, reporting on the two d8aths, said: ‘In the early hours of Sunday, April 20, in the parish of Playas de Cuyabeno, at the closure of an event that took place for the anniversary of the Kichwa community, an incident occurred where as a result two people d8ed.
‘Those two people were a community member from the area and another person of British nationality who d8ed due to the severity of his burns.’
The Ecuadorian man k!lled has been named locally as Rodrigo Chavez.
A third man was reportedly arrested over the Briton’s k!lling.
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