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Douala: Man lynched to death after attempting to steal mobile phone

A man has been beaten to death after attempting to steal a phone in Ndogpassi 2, a neighborhood in Douala, Littoral Region of Cameroon.

“He was followed and beaten by the youths of the neighborhood after failing to make away with a phone which he had seized from a passerby” a source disclosed to MMI.

The bandit died on the spot after he was beaten by an angry mop.

His body was taken to a mortuary.

This comes few days after another man was lynched to death for attempting to make away with a biker’s motorcycle in the same town.

By Amina Hilda

Mimi Mefo Info (MMI)

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