A 16 year old girl beaten and burned alive by a lynch mob [VIDEO Included]

The vicious attack in the village of Rio Bravo, 77 miles west of capital Guatemala City, was videoed as a crowd stood by and watched the unidentified teenager being savagely battered and burnt to death.

According to a Guatemalan news site, the girl was accused of being part of a gang, who killed a 68 year old motorcycle taxi driver.

Her accomplices shot the taxi driver, robbed him and fled down a series of alleys, but the girl took a wrong turn and was quickly surrounded and set upon by a vigilante mob.

The teenager was dragged by her hair into the center of the crowd brutally beaten and doused in petrol and set aflame amidst a large crowd of onlookers including children and elderly women.

The video was uploaded to YouTube and was viewed hundreds of thousands of times before it was removed. The incident has provoked an outcry on social media.

A police spokesman said that officers had tried to intervene, but were blocked by the bystanders. The National Civil Police has not identified the victim due to concerns that of further tensions in the area.

Lynching is commonplace in Guatemala, where powerful drug and human trafficking cartels operate and criminals are rarely convicted for their crimes.
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