A 55-year-old disabled Muslim driver Mohammad Zahiruddin was killed by a mob which suspected that he was carrying beef in Bihar’s Saran district around midnight on Thursday. The mob lynching took place when the truck driver was stopped while transporting animal bones for medicinal purposes, according to the police.
The incident occurred in the Khori Pakar area of Jalalpur police station of Saran district, when the truck, heading from Tajpur Basahi towards a bone factory in Gaura, broke down in the middle of the road, forcing the driver to stop to repair it. Police officials said that when the driver started looking for help, some villagers came near the truck and, smelling meat and bone, they asked what was being transported. Suspecting that beef was being transported, they started beating him.
The helper of the truck, Khurshid Ali, saved his life by running away from the spot. However, Mr. Zahiruddin, a resident of Majhwalia village under the Gaura police station, could not run because he had a steel rod implanted in one of his legs. The villagers beat him up and then ran away. Later he was taken to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead.
