Ecuadorian police said “everything humanly possible” was done to prevent a British man from being lynched and burnt alive by a village mob in the Amazon rainforest.
The Playas del Cuyabeno police claimed that “the mob exceeded the capacity of seven police officers” tasked with protecting the visitor, who was believed to have moved from the UK and was killed in a revenge attack on Sunday.
The man, who has not been officially identified, was being held in a police station in the Sucumbios province of Ecuador on suspicion of shooting dead a man named locally as Rodrigo Chavez.
