Eight arrested on suspicion of killing Muslim accused of eating beef

Eight people have been arrested in northern India for allegedly beating a Muslim farmer to death over claims the family was eating beef – a taboo among India’s majority Hindu population.

District Magistrate Nagendra Pratap Singh said a mob of about 60 Hindus became incensed when a temple announced that the family had been slaughtering cows and storing the beef in his house in Bisara, a border village in Uttar Pradesh state.