Couple Burned in Chiapas for Presumed Witchcraft · Global Voices
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Videos posted on social media show one of the victims caught in flames
According to local reports, dozens of inhabitants broke into the victims' homes, forcibly removed them without giving them a chance to defend themselves.
In the community of Ocosingo, Chiapas, residents subjected for several years a man and a woman through aggression before being sprayed with fuel.
A mob of Mayan indigenous people murdered the couple in the Mexican town of Ocosingo. Authorities are already investigating this heinous crime.
Tzeltal inhabitants of Las Tacitas attacked and set a victim on fire in the central square after accusations of sorcery
A man and a woman of Mayan tseltal origin were lynched and burned alive in Ocosingo, Chiapas, after being accused by residents of superstitious practices. The Linchan entrance and burn a man and a woman of Mayan origin accused of superstitious practices in Chiapas was first published in La Voz de Michoacán.
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