Peasants burn four alleged cattle thieves alive in Peru

2023-05-26 18:30:03

LIMA (AP) — Farmers in a remote area of ​​the Peruvian Andes burned four suspected cattle thieves alive and set fire to the car in which they were escaping, police said Friday.

The corpses entered the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in the regional capital Junín, in central Peru. “The residents detained some thieves who had come to steal, their bodies are charred,” the police chief of the Junín region, Colin Galván, told the press.

The event occurred on Thursday in the remote village of Acipampa, in the province of Chupaca, where peasants organized to stop the wave of cattle thefts, which constitutes their main economic activity.

The alleged thieves escaped in a car but the road was blocked by a group of peasants. They were caught, their hands were tied behind their backs and then they were set on fire, he told police. On Friday, a prosecutor and dozens of uniformed officers arrived in the remote town to collect the bodies in the presence of hundreds of angry peasants. No one has been arrested so far.

Videos broadcast by local television stations showed a charred, overturned car with smoke still coming out of the windows. The local newspaper Correo reported that the peasants’ organization includes cell phones to coordinate their actions, megaphones to listen to each other in the middle of the rural plain, and road blockades to detain suspected criminals.

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