A British man was reportedly pulled from a police station and burnt to death in front of officers in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest on Sunday, April 20. Deep in the Amazon Rainforest, a celebration by locals in a small riverside village ended in double murder.
A foreigner – reported as ‘English’ or ‘British’ in local media – was beaten by residents who accused him of shooting a man dead in the isolated village of Playas del Cuyabeno.
Police arrested the unnamed British man arpund 6am and locked him in the station for protection while waiting for reinforcements, Diario Extra reports.
But his safety behind bars didn’t last.
The group of locals returned six hours later, at about midday, broke him out of the police station and set him on fire outside until he died.
He was later seen lying on the ground covered in a white sheet while people stood around.
