Mexican youths torture and kill boy, 6

Prosecutors in a Mexican border state say a group of youths aged 11 to 15 tortured, killed and buried a 6-year-old boy as part of what they considered “playing.”

A statement by the Chihuahua state prosecutors’ office says the minors admitted last Thursday’s killing in a poor neighbourhood of the state capital.

It says two 13-year-old girls, an 11-year-old boy and two 15-year-olds caught Cristopher Raymundo Martinez, tied him up, nearly asphyxiated him with a bar, stoned him and then stabbed him in the back. Then they buried the six-year-old in a shallow grave.