Outrage as mob kills innocent pair

Two innocent teenagers carrying a cricket bag were beaten to death by a mob in Pakistan who mistook them for thieves.

Their deaths, watched by police who did nothing to intervene, were captured on video footage that has outraged the country.

It shows men taking turns savagely beating the two brothers with sticks, drawing blood before dragging and hanging their bodies from a nearby pole.

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None of the dozens of people watching tried to stop the attack.

The incident is a blow to the already-shoddy image of the government as it appeals for international aid to cope with disastrous floods.

"Is this what we are? Savages?" asked an editorial in The News, an English-language daily.

The killings happened on August 15 in Sialkot, a town in eastern Punjab province.

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