MP mob targets Muslim women over beef rumour, 27th attack this year
July 29, 2017  11:23
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A video showing two Muslim women being slapped, kicked and abused for nearly half an hour by a mob of cow vigilantes, as police stand by has surfaced.

Gau mata ki jai! (hail mother cow), the attackers scream, as onlookersone of whom filmed the videowatch but do not intervene.

After the attack, the two women were arrested on suspicion of carrying beef. No action was taken against the attackers.

The attack on the two women in the town of Mandsaur in western Madhya Pradesh was the 26th in 118 days since 55-year-old Pehlu Khan died after a mob attack on April 1, 2017, bringing the count to 27 cases of cow-related violence in seven months this year, the most in eight years, according to a database that records such violence in India.
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