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Honduran police arrested at least five people suspected of taking part in the lynching and killing of Italian Giorgio Scanu, which involved about 600 people armed with machetes, sticks and stones in Santa Ana de Yusquare, in the south of the country. Central American. This was announced today by the government of Tegucigalpa, quoted by the Reuters agency on its website.
Those arrested – taken yesterday by the police, are between 19 and 55 years old. The angry mob accused Scanu of beating to death and killing an elderly neighbor after an argument.