Peru TV broadcasts images of public lynching
Peru’s state-run television station broadcast images today of villagers in the country’s remote Lake Titicaca region dousing an accused thief with petrol and setting him alight.
Alejandro Noalca Mamani, 54, died late yesterday of burns that covered 85% of his body, according to a communiqué by the regional hospital in Juliaca, 510 miles south east of Lima.