TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Mexico: One person was arrested after a mob lynched two men in southern Mexico in a dispute over a car, authorities said.
The incident took place in broad daylight on Monday in the indigenous-majority town of San Juan Chamula, Chiapas state, during a festival for the community's patron saint, San Mateo.
The victims, who included a regional farmers' leader, went to the town to take back a pick-up truck that was sold to a man who failed to pay, the Chiapas state prosecutor's office said in a statement late Monday.
When the two men tried to reclaim the vehicle, the other man "incited" the population and the victims were tied up by a group of people who beat them to death, the statement said.
The man who had been accused of not paying for the car, Manolo Rodriguez Ordonez, was arrested on homicide charges, the statement said.
At least 11 people have been lynched in Chiapas, Mexico's poorest state, since 2012, according to official figures.
AFP
