Barely 10 hours after five people were lynched in Dhule on suspicion of child-lifting, five persons, including a two-year-old boy and two women, were attacked by a mob in Malegaon in neighbouring Nashik district after rumours that they were trying to kidnap a child. The group, however, was saved by a few locals who pushed all five into a house and a small mill stocking textile raw material and kept the surging mob back until a 130-strong police contingent rescued them close to midnight.
Barely 10 hours after five people were lynched in Dhule on suspicion of child-lifting, five persons, including a two-year-old boy and two women, were attacked by a mob in Malegaon in neighbouring Nashik district after rumours that they were trying to kidnap a child. The group, however, was saved by a few locals who pushed all five into a house and a small mill stocking textile raw material and kept the surging mob back until a 130-strong police contingent rescued them close to midnight.