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A British man was beaten and set on fire after being dragged out of a police station in Ecuador, according to local reports.
The man had been arrested as a suspect in a fatal shooting and taken to a police station in Playas del Cuyabeno, a remote village in the Amazon rainforest.
The British citizen was intercepted by a group of residents who began beating him and he was moved into a police station to protect him at around 6am on Sunday.
Around six hours later, while officers were waiting for specialist units to arrive a group broke into the station and captured the suspect, before setting him on fire in the street, Ecuadorian TV network Ecuavisa reported.
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Newspaper Extra reported that a foreign citizen had been “lynched and burned” to death by a group of residents in front of the police station, during the “shocking act of apparent community justice”.
The British national died from his burns, Extra reported.
It is understood that specialist units had been slow to arrive at the scene due to how remote the village is.
Playas del Cuyabeno is in the north-east of Ecuador and is only accessible by river, reports added.
The Foreign Office has been contacted for comment.