‘Cut ear with pliers, broke hand’: Mob lynching victim succumbs to injuries in Bihar

‘Cut ear with pliers, broke hand’: Mob lynching victim succumbs to injuries in Bihar

According to his brother Mohammad Shakib Alam, Hussain, who also lived partly with his in-laws in Barui village, was returning home when his bicycle broke down near Bhattapar village under Roh police station, forcing him to look for a puncture shop.

Checked he was a Muslim, cut ear with pliers: 50-year-old man lynched in Bihar

A 50-year-old cloth vendor, Mohammad Athar Hussain, succumbed to his injuries late Friday night at Biharsharif Sadar Hospital, days after being brutally assaulted in a mob lynching incident in the Roh police station area of Nawada district. Hussain was attacked on December 5 while returning from Dumri village when six to seven men stopped him, questioned his name and identity, and then subjected him to severe violence. According to his statement…