A MAN was burned to death by an angry mob after being arrested in Ecuador, according to reports.
According to local media, the furious group lynched the man, who is believed to be British, after storming the police station where he was being held.
He was arrested by locals after being suspected of killing another person, according to reports.
However, after only a few hours in detention, locals allegedly forced their way into the building and set fire to the man in front of cops.
The horrific killing occurred in the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve in Ecuador’s Amazon region, a popular tourist destination, according to major Ecuadorian newspaper Ecuavisa.
According to Extra, officers chose not to intervene to defend the man from the mob.
A local TV station reported: “In the early hours of Sunday, April 20, in the parish of Playas de Cuyabeno, at the conclusion of an event commemorating the Kichwa community’s anniversary, an incident occurred that resulted in the deaths of two people.
“Those two people were a community member from the area and another person of British nationality who died due to the severity of his burns.”
The Ecuadorian man killed has been identified locally as Rodrigo Chavez.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone had been arrested following the horrific reported lynching.
The Sun has contacted the Foreign Office for comment.
It comes after a British citizen was found dead in Spain under suspicious circumstances.
Heartbroken mum Sandra Adams believes her 35-year-old son Brett Dryden was killed after being discovered with a four-inch gash to the head.
Cops say Brett died of natural causes, despite Sandra’s pleas to look into the case further to find out what she believes to be the truth.
Sandra, who returned to the scene of her son’s death this week, now claims the case is a major police cover-up.
Brett, 35, had lived in Mojacar, Andalusia, for five years, running The Dawg House, a legal cannabis club.
The father of one was discovered dead in his resort home on the Costa Almeria on July 22, last year.
His friends claim police officers initially told them Brett was killed in a “violent murder” by an axe attack.
It follows the tragic death of a British backpacker in a hit-and-run with a truck.
The 40-year-old man lost control of his motorcycle when he collided with a truck carrying construction materials in Cambodia.
He was reportedly thrown from his seat and crushed under the trailer’s wheels.
The truck driver is believed to have fled the scene following the accident.
Passing motorists stopped and called the emergency services.
Cops arrived at the scene and discovered the Brit dead in a pool of blood on the dusty ground.
