Bangladesh: Outcry over video of boy, 13, beaten to death

DHAKA, July 14 (NsNewsWire) — Thousands of people in Bangladesh are demanding justice for a teenage boy who was beaten to death by a group of men who filmed themselves laughing and jeering as they carried out the attack.

A video of the 13-year-old’s murder has gone viral on social media, reports BBC.

The killers accused the boy of trying to steal a bicycle rickshaw van in the north-eastern city of Sylhet.

Three people have been detained, including the main suspect who fled to Saudi Arabia after the attack.

Suspected thieves are often attacked by mobs in Bangladesh.

But the BBC’s South Asia editor, Joanna Jolly, says that the brutality of the assault has caused widespread outrage and led to police forming a special squad to investigate the killing.