Madagascar mob kills French men over 'organ trafficking'
17:20, 3 October 2013
ANTANANARIVO. October 3. KAZINFORM - Two French men have been burnt to death in Madagascar by angry protesters who suspected they were trafficking human organs after a child went missing, BBC informs.
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A local man was arrested in connection with the disappearance on Wednesday on Nosy Be, a tourist island resort off Madagascar's north-west coast. A crowd then rioted outside the police station believing him to have been paid to remove the child's organs. The mob proceeded on "a manhunt" for the foreigners, police said. "It resulted in the death of two foreigners," the deputy commander of the paramilitary police, General Guy Randriamaro Bobin, told the AFP news agency. The BBC's Tim Healy in the capital, Antananarivo, says no child's body has been found. Local media reported that the protesters had found human organs in a fridge in the building where the Frenchmen were staying. Our reporter says Nosy Be is the jewel in the crown of Madagascar's tourist industry and has been used to encourage tourists to return to the Indian Ocean nation following several years of political unrest.
