British man burnt to death in the Amazon after locals accuse him of murder
The British man in police custody before he was murdered
A British man was reportedly pulled from a police station and burnt to death in front of officers in Ecuador on Sunday.
Deep in the Amazon Rainforest, a celebration by locals in a small riverside village ended in double murder.
A foreigner – reported as ‘English’ or ‘British’ in local media – was beaten by residents who accused him of shooting a man dead in the isolated village of Playas del Cuyabeno.
Police arrested the unnamed British man and locked him in the station for protection while waiting for reinforcements, Diario Extra reports.
But his safety behind bars didn’t last.
The group of locals returned six hours later, broke him out of the police station and set him on fire outside until he died.
He was later seen lying on the ground covered in a white sheet while people stood around.
Accessible only by boat along the Aguarico River, specialist police had still not arrived.
Playas del Cuyabeno has a small tourism industry focused on outdoor activities in the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, the country’s second largest.
Tour packages – mostly costing upwards of £200 – include trips to see river and rainforest wildlife across a 5,900km square area.
Among those are Amazon Pink Dolphins, jaguars, three-toed sloth, anacondas, caimans, turtles, iguanas, scarlet macaws, toucans, and monkeys.
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