Psycho Punk
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This sort of hysteria happens every so often, child snatching for different reasons. Were they killing kids for their organs? Doubt if we'll ever know for certain now.
Two European men have been burnt to death in Madagascar by protesters who suspected they were trafficking human organs after a child went missing. A local man had been arrested in connection with the disappearance on Wednesday on Nosy Be, a tourist island resort in Madagascar's north-west. A crowd then rioted outside the police station believing him to have been paid to remove the child's organs. The mob proceeded on "a manhunt" for the foreigners, police said.
"It resulted in the death of two foreigners," the deputy commander of the paramilitary police, Gen Guy Randriamaro Bobin, told the AFP news agency. Officials initially said they were French nationals, but residents on Nosy Be say one of the men may have been Italian. "Two foreigners died, we have confirmed that one of them was French," AFP quotes France's foreign affairs spokesman Philippe Lalliot as saying.
Gen Randriamaro Bobin said an eight-year-old boy's lifeless body was found on Thursday morning, without genitals and without a tongue, the agency reports. Local media reported that the protesters had found human organs in a fridge in the building where the Europeans were staying. The mob then burnt down houses around the station before going on to find the home of the two foreigners.
"They confessed under torture [by the mob] to organ trafficking," Gen Randriamaro Bobin told AFP. ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24380937
