Five people who were suspected of being child kidnappers were killed by villagers in Maharashtra's Dhule on Sunday, police said. Twelve people have been arrested. The five, along with a few others, were seen getting off a state transport bus in the tribal Rainpada village, about 140 km from Dhule town. The five men, who belonged to a nomadic community, had gone to a house to ask for food. When one of them reportedly tried to speak to a child, villagers, who were around for the weekly Sunday market, suspected him to be a kidnapper and began to thrash him, they said.

Five people who were suspected of being child kidnappers were killed by villagers in Maharashtra's Dhule on Sunday, police said. Twelve people have been arrested. The five, along with a few others, were seen getting off a state transport bus in the tribal Rainpada village, about 140 km from Dhule town. The five men, who belonged to a nomadic community, had gone to a house to ask for food. When one of them reportedly tried to speak to a child, villagers, who were around for the weekly Sunday market, suspected him to be a kidnapper and began to thrash him, they said.