Police in Algeria said they had arrested 36 people after the lynching of a man suspected of having started one of the country's deadly forest fires.
Algerian police said Sunday they had arrested 36 people including three women after the lynching of a man suspected of having started one of the country's deadly forest fires.
"A preliminary enquiry... into the homicide, lynching, immolation and mutilation... of Djamel Ben Ismail... led to the arrest of 36 suspects including three women," police chief Mohamed Chakour told reporters. One man"who had stabbed the victim" was arrested"as he tried to flee to Morocco", Chakour said, adding that an investigation was still under way.
"These images constitute yet another trauma for the family and for the Algerian people, already shocked" by the fires, it said.
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