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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaMexico: Funeral held for girl whose death sparked mob violence in TaxcoPublished22 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, EPAImage caption, The death of Camila Gómez has caused outrage in MexicoBy Leonardo Rocha, Americas editor, and Sean SeddonBBC NewsA woman suspected of murdering an eight-year-old girl in southern Mexico was beaten to death after a mob formed from protests sparked by the killing.Violent protests began after the body of Camila Gómez was found by a road near the city of Taxco on Thursday. Footage on social media showed police watching on as a woman locals believed to be responsible for the killing was brutally beaten in broad daylight.Two men also suspected by locals of involvement were attacked but survived.Camila disappeared on Wednesday after entering a neighbour’s house to use their swimming pool. Her mother went to the police a few hours later after receiving phone messages demanding a ransom to free her. She says she gave the police images from the security camera of another neighbour showing the house where the girl was but they reportedly ignored her pleas to act. Camila’s body was found on a local road on Thursday. Local authorities later confirmed they were investigating a woman and two men for aggravated homicide.Relatives of Camila joined Taxco residents to protest against the police and demand justice in a case which caused outrage in Mexico, a country with one of the world’s highest rates of violence against womenTaxco residents overturned cars, blocked a road and surrounded three people they believed had killed the girl.Social media footage of the lynch mob showed police looking on as a woman locals believed to be responsible was brutally attacked.Police appear to have been attempting to remove them from where the mob had gathered.Image source, EPAImage caption, A protest calling for police action over the murder developed into a lynch mobLocal prosecutors are treating the woman’s death at the hands of the crowd as qualified homicide, AFP news agency reports. A statement on the state prosecutor of Guerrero’s website confirms police formally arrested one man in connection with Camila’s death.Mourners dressed in white gathered in Taxco on Friday for Camila’s funeral, El Universal report, and carried the coffin through the city centre.The small city, which lies around 170km (105 miles) south of the capital Mexico City, is situated in the state of Guerrero, which has been plagued by organised crime.Lynch mobs against people suspected of crimes against children are not uncommon in Mexico. In June 2022, a politician was beaten to death by a crowd of around 200 people after accusations he was involved in a child kidnapping were spread online.In November 2018, a shop owner in the central Mexican state of Puebla was burned to death after similar rumours circulated on WhatsApp.Related TopicsMexicoMore on this story’People will keep dying’: Fentanyl crisis grips Mexico’s border citiesPublished7 FebruaryHundreds flee cartel battles in southern MexicoPublished23 JanuaryTop StoriesDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson resigns after rape chargePublished11 hours agoGirl’s death sparks deadly mob violence in MexicoPublished22 minutes agoLost Marvin Gaye music resurfaces in BelgiumPublished27 minutes agoFeaturesThe Papers: DUP leader charged and ‘hefty’ water bill riseChris Mason: Another moment of instability for Northern IrelandSeven bills going up and one going down in AprilAI photos show people with cancer their lost future’I drove 14 hours to see a Banksy for 10 minutes’The football pitch that doubles as an execution groundMixed feelings over Canada’s drug decriminalisation testEwan McGregor ‘turned into his grandad’ in new roleA view from inside ship that hit Baltimore bridge. 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[ad_1] The killing of Camila Gómez triggered protests and a lynch mob in the southern city of Taxco.
![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaNigeria kidnap crisis: Schoolboy recounts daring escape from banditsPublished49 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage caption, Musa Garba was taken, along with more than 280 others, from his school in Kuriga, northern NigeriaBy Chris EwokorBBC News, KurigaMusa Garba,17, had to slither on the ground like a snake to avoid being detected by his kidnappers as he made his escape through the bush of northern Nigeria.Earlier, camouflaged by his school uniform, the teenager had managed to hide in a heap of cut grass as the group of schoolchildren he was abducted with were taking a break from their forced trek.More than 280 of them were snatched last week from a school in the town of Kuriga, in Kaduna state, traumatising a community.”We saw motorbikes on the road. We thought they were soldiers, before we realised they had occupied the school premises and started shooting,” Musa tells the BBC as he recalls Thursday morning’s terrifying events. We have changed his name for his own safety, along with that of another kidnapped boy mentioned in the article.”We tried to run away, but they chased us and caught us. They gathered us like cows into the bush.”These armed men on motorbikes – referred to locally as bandits – had been menacing the community for some time, with the security forces apparently unable to deal with the threat. Kuriga had been persistently attacked by gangs seeking to kidnap people and make money from ransom payments.The scale of this latest abduction and the fact that it involved children as young as seven has been overwhelming for many here.”We watched them carrying our children away just right here and there’s nothing we could do. We don’t have military, we don’t have police in the community,” a distressed Hajiya Hauwa says, through tears. Image source, AFPImage caption, The school in Kuriga now lies emptyMusa was one of those taken away.”While we were moving in the bush, at some points, we were all thirsty, but there was no water. Some girls and boys were just falling as we moved because they were all tired,” he says. “The bandits had to carry some of them on the bike.”At one point, deep into the bush, they were able to quench their thirst at a river which came as a big relief for the children who had not had breakfast and had been forced to walk for several hours under the hot sun.Musa kept looking for ways to escape and tried to encourage others to join him but they were too afraid. He saw his chance as the sun was setting. Looking around to ensure he was not being monitored, he hid in one of the heaps of grass and lay still. “After all was quiet, [to avoid detection] I started dragging myself like a snake on the ground.” Once it was totally dark, he got up and walked off until he got to a village where he got help. He took a huge risk that could have led to him being killed at the slightest mistake, but some are saying that God protected him. When he appeared the next day in Kuriga, his parents were jubilant, but he came with harrowing tales of the children still in captivity.The parents of 10-year-old Sadiq Usman Abdullahi are still waiting for news about him.The last time the family saw the jovial and much-loved boy was when he had dashed back home on Thursday morning saying he had forgotten his pencil for school – shortly before the kidnappers drove into the town.”He came to ask me: ‘Hassan do you have a pencil?'” his 21-year-old brother says.”I told him to check my bag. Sadiq was in a rush, so he scattered my things. He found the pencil. I told him to tidy my bag. Then he took his socks and ran out.” Image caption, Rahmatu Usman Abdullahi says she has not slept since her son was kidnapped last weekHis mother, Rahmatu Usman Abdullahi, says she has not been able to sleep since that day.”I always think about him, I can’t sleep. What kind of sleep can I even have? Look at my eyes! What kind of sleep? May God just help us,” she says, looking up to seek divine intervention.But Musa and Sadiq are just two among the more than 4,000 people who have been kidnapped in Nigeria in the past eight months, according to one estimate.In the last decade and a half, people in northern Nigeria have come under intense attack by armed militant groups. At first, this mainly happened in the north-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, where the Islamist group, known as Boko Haram (meaning “Western education is forbidden”) is active. A second force, linked to the Islamic State group, has also emerged.Both sets of jihadist groups were involved in kidnapping, targeting farmers, travellers and even razing villages to the ground. Schools, seen as the home of Western education, became a target. The notorious attack on the girls’ school in Chibok 10 years ago set a template.”There has been an escalation in attacks on schools in northern Nigeria. Primary schools, secondary schools and universities have come under attack,” says Shehu Sani, a former senator for Kaduna state. He argues that the aim is to discourage parents from sending their children to school.”At the same time, when they attack and kidnap, they do it with the intension of raising funds – to buy more arms and also to continue their criminal activities.”But their methods have spread across the north with the criminal gangs known as bandits adopting the same approach, as they have seen that kidnapping schoolchildren often attracts attention, and therefore ransoms.”They are motivated by money. They simply kidnap people, and once ransom is paid to them, they release their hostages. They have no political agenda and no clear-cut leadership,” Mr Sani says.Image caption, Chief Jibril Gwadabe was himself the target of bandits two years agoThe government has invested a lot of time and money in tackling the issue, but there are still communities that feel unprotected.Kuriga is one of those.Jibril Gwadabe, a local traditional chief, says that the place is plagued by the bandits, due to the absence of security forces in the area. “I have been a victim myself,” the 64-year-old says. “I was going to my farm one day, two years ago when they stopped me. I started struggling with them and they shot me in my stomach. The bullet came out from my back. I was hospitalised for one month here in Kaduna, but I survived.”The authorities have promised that the children will soon be returned home alive. But people in Kuriga are still worried. “We don’t know the condition of our children up till now. We don’t know how they are, where they are,” Chief Gwadabe says.More about Nigeria’s kidnap crisis: Why mass abductions have returned to haunt NigeriaWhat in the World Podcast: Nigeria’s kidnap crisisThe motorcycle bandits terrorising northern NigeriaWhy Nigeria’s economy is in such a mess’How I survived my train hijacking’Kidnapping and debt: A Nigerian legacyRelated TopicsNigeriaTop StoriesUK must build new gas power plants or risk blackouts, minister warnsPublished51 minutes agoIs pressure on Kate after photo chaos unfair?Published6 hours agoTory donor accused of racist Diane Abbott remarksPublished2 hours agoFeaturesOn Russia’s Arctic border, Nato’s new members prep for warIs pressure on Kate after photo chaos unfair?Seven of the best moments from the OscarsBarbie, Oppenheimer & a wardrobe mishap? The Oscars in 60 seconds. VideoBarbie, Oppenheimer & a wardrobe mishap? 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaDemocrats rally around Biden as report raises age concernsPublished1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Democrats who have spent time with Mr Biden have defended him as sharp and focusedBy Sam Cabral & Madeline HalpertBBC News on Capitol Hill & from New YorkDemocrats are defending President Joe Biden after a report on his handling of classified documents raised concerns about his age and mental fitness. Mr Biden will not be charged for keeping classified documents, but the report cast him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”.Vice-President Kamala Harris slammed the description as “gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate”.She also alleged the prosecutor was “clearly politically motivated”.Robert Hur, a Donald Trump appointee who has previously clerked for two well-known conservative judges, was appointed to lead the Biden classified document probe last year.Prosecutor faces political glare after Biden reportHis selection by US Attorney General Merrick Garland that January came as the justice department faced criticism from Republicans over a separate special counsel appointment to investigate Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of top secret files.But Mr Hur’s publicly-released report included a letter from the White House asking that the comments about the president’s memory be revised “in a manner that is within the bounds of your expertise and remit”.Ms Harris, who has previously served as a prosecutor, echoed that criticism at a news conference on Friday.”The way that the president’s demeanour in that report was characterised could not be more wrong on the facts, and clearly politically motivated,” she said.”When it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect there would be a higher level of integrity.”Political grenade puts spotlight on Biden’s ageWho is the special counsel in the Biden probe?Democratic allies on Capitol Hill also told the BBC they believed Mr Hur’s remarks went beyond the scope of the investigation. “I think it was an entirely inappropriate way to approach the remit of the special counsel and the role of the special counsel,” Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon said.”It’s unfortunate it wandered into territory that was so inappropriate.”Minnesota’s Tina Smith called Mr Hur’s comments “outrageous” and “despicable”, accusing him of “blatantly politicising” his role as special counsel.Since launching his re-election campaign, Mr Biden has been plagued by concerns about his age and mental capacities.He is 81, just a few years older than the front-runner Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, 77. This report has done little to assuage voters’ concerns. It alleged that Mr Biden could not remember when his son Beau died of cancer or when he served as vice-president during interviews with investigators. But Democrats who spoke to the BBC on Friday said they remain unconcerned about the president’s mental faculties.Summing up his takeaways from the report, Senator Jon Ossoff from Georgia said: “No charges recommended. Unusual commentary straying from what one would typically expect in a focused and substantive report. Ultimately just noise.”The youngest member of the Senate, Mr Ossoff emphasised that he had spent a “substantial amount of time” with the president in recent months. “I’ve found him to be sharp, focused, impressive, formidable and effective,” he said.Mr Ossoff’s colleagues agreed, including Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who called the president “thoughtful and experienced” at a Friday news conference. Democrats remain “absolutely confident” in the president, he said. “We want to stick with somebody who understands what this country needs.”This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Watch: Biden responds to special counsel – “I’m elderly and know what the hell I’m doing”But some of his counterparts across the aisle said Mr Hur’s observations had added fuel to the growing perception that Mr Biden is not up to the job of president. “He’s trying to do his best, and his best is beginning to concern me,” North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis told the BBC. “I don’t care if you’re 78 or 178, if you’re going to be the leader of the free world, you’ve got to be on your game 100%,” the moderate Republican said. Concerns about Mr Biden’s age are “an enduring problem” for his re-election campaign, Larry Sabato, the director for the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, told the BBC.Experts have noted that polling suggests Mr Trump does not face as much criticism from voters about his age, despite having similar gaffes as Mr Biden on the campaign trail.In recent months, both Mr Biden and Mr Trump have made a series of public errors while publicly speaking, confusing names of world leaders and US politicians on several occasions. But Mr Trump’s bombastic style and “constant offensive posture” may fuel perceptions of him as a more energetic candidate, said Chris Borick, the director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion.Worries about Mr Trump’s age “don’t seem to stick in the same way”, he said. But for Mr Biden, his campaign will have to be focused on addressing the perception that he is not mentally fit for office.”The report adds to the steepness of [Biden’s] efforts to overcome what is undoubtedly a significant hindrance to his campaign,” Mr Borick said. 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