NEW DELHI:A 19-year-old man, accused of sexually assaulting several young girls, was allegedly lynched by a mob outside the Roing police station in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lower Dibang Valley district on Friday afternoon. The accused, said to be a migrant labourer from Assam, was reportedly working at an under-construction site near a school. He was accused of assaulting at least seven minor girls, all between the ages of six and nine.

Superintendent of police Ringu Ngupok said the police had launched a night-long search for the accused on Thursday. Locals found him on Friday morning and handed him over to the police. “Around 2.30 to 3 pm, a crowd of 500 to 600 people gathered outside the Roing police station. They broke open the gate and stormed in,” SP Ngupok told news agency ANI. “We tried to stop them, but they pulled the accused out,” he said. The SP said the man was taken to the district hospital after the mob attack but died of his injuries.