Muslim man lynched over beef in Western India

Afan Abdul Ansari had been lynched by cow vigilantes while ferrying 450 kiograms of meat from a vendor, around 136 miles away from Mumbai.

The vigilantes had suspected that he had meat and decided to brutally attack him along with Nasir Hussain, 24 who was with him in the car.

The police have arrested 11 men – all from the villages of Nashik – for murder, rioting, carrying weapons and unlawful assembly. One of the suspects is 42 years old and the rest are aged between 19 and 30.

Ansari’s uncle Mohammad Asghar reached the scene describing his nephew, ‘“My nephew’s face had turned green, he had a bruise on the forehead, his shoulder was dislocated and fingers broken,” he told Al Jazeera. “I froze when I saw his dead body.”