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‘He looked like a terrorist!' How a drive in rural India ended in a mob attack and a lynching

The car destroyed during the mob lynching attack which killed Mohammed Azam is seen parked at the police station in Bidar, India. [Reuters]

In the tiny hamlet of Murki in the hinterlands of south India, Inspector V.B. Yadwad surveyed a pile of bricks and stones in a ditch where he and other police officers had been attacked earlier this month while trying to save a group of five men on a road trip from a violent mob.

“We tried hard to stop them,” said Yadwad, pointing to injuries on his back. “They wouldn’t listen to anyone.”

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