{"id":4524,"date":"2019-07-25T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T00:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/25\/bangladesh-eight-lynched-over-false-rumours-of-child-sacrifices"},"modified":"2019-07-25T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T00:45:29","slug":"bangladesh-eight-lynched-over-false-rumours-of-child-sacrifices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4524","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: eight lynched over false rumours of child sacrifices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police use loudspeakers to counter online reports that children were being killed for bridge-building project<\/p>\n<p>Eight people have been killed in vigilante lynchings in Bangladesh, sparked by rumours on social media of children being kidnapped and sacrificed as offerings for the construction of a mega-bridge, police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The victims \u2013 who include two women \u2013 were targeted by angry mobs over the rumours, spread mostly on Facebook, that said human heads were required for the massive $3bn project, police chief Javed Patwary said in Dhaka. \u201cWe have analysed every single case of these eight killings. Those who were killed by lynching mobs \u2013 no one was a child kidnapper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/25\/bangladesh-eight-lynched-over-false-rumours-of-child-sacrifices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police use loudspeakers to counter online reports that children were being killed for bridge-building projectEight people have been killed in vigilante lynchings in Bangladesh, sparked by rumours on social media of children being kidnapped and sacrific&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}