News | September 30, 2015 07:40 PM EDT

Mob Murders Farmer for Allegedly Eating Beef - Daily Beast

On Monday night in Bisara—a village just 25 miles southeast of New Delhi—a mob of roughly 60 hunted down a Muslim farmer, dragged him and his son into the street, and savagely beat them with bricks. The farmer, 52-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq, was bludgeoned to death, and his son left severely injured.

After a rumor spread that Akhlaq and his family had been slaughtering cows and eating beef, the angry mob sprang into action. The police subsequently arrested eight people on Tuesday as they searched for two others suspected in the killing. The eight suspects were charged with rioting and murder.

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