"Vigilante Justice: Mob in Mexico Lynches Suspected Kidnapper Before Holy Week Procession"

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Source: The Associated Press
"Vigilante Justice: Mob in Mexico Lynches Suspected Kidnapper Before Holy Week Procession"
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A mob in Taxco, Mexico, brutally beat a woman to death after suspecting her of kidnapping and killing an 8-year-old girl, just hours before the city's Holy Week procession. The mob formed after the girl's body was found, and security camera footage showed a woman and a man loading a bundle into a taxi, suspected to be the girl's body. The mayor expressed outrage over the killing, and the state prosecutors' office confirmed the woman died of her injuries. The incident cast a pall over the religious procession, and residents expressed frustration with the ongoing violence in the area.

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