- Saturday, April 27, 2024
By: Lauren Codling
A mob lynched a woman in India after rumours circulated on WhatsApp about child kidnappers, police said Monday (23), days after the messaging firm said it was curbing the forwarding of messages. More than 20 people have been killed in similar incidents in the past two months, leaving both the Indian authorities and Facebook-owned WhatsApp scrambling to find a solution in its biggest market. Police said nine people have been arrested and more are being sought after they found the middle-aged woman’s mutilated body near a forest area in the Singrauli district of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh…
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