A teenage rape and murder suspect has been buried alive in the grave of his alleged victim.
Villagers threw 17-year-old Santos Ramos into the open grave after he was identified as a possible culprit in the attack on Leandra Arias Janco in the southern highlands of Bolivia, prosecutor Jose Luis Barrios said.
The Associated Press cites a source who claims Ramos was tied up at the 35-year-old woman’s funeral and then thrown into the open grave in Colquechaca, 400 miles south of La Paz.
The woman’s coffin was then placed on top of him and the grave was filled with earth, it added.
Ramos was a peasant, the AFP reports, adding the region's small police force was unable to contain the crowd of "about 100 people" thought to be involved.
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." JS Mill
