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This is the shocking moment a suspected thief set on fire by an angry mob desperately runs around before collapsing and crawling on the ground as he tries and fails to put out the flames engulfing his whole body.
The disturbing scenes were recorded in the Hillbrow area of the city of Johannesburg in South Africa’s Gauteng Province after local residents accused two men of having stolen a woman’s handbag.
Local police Captain Kay Makhubele told reporters residents had chased after the two men and “applied mob justice”.