Attackers in Bangladesh beat 13-year-old boy to death for allegedly stealing van

A 13-year-old boy in Bangladesh was brutally beaten to death after a group of attackers accused him of theft. 

The 28-minute video that shows the teenager getting beaten to death has shocked the Internet, reports bdnews24.

Samiul Islam Rajon was beaten to death on July 8 on accusations of stealing a rickshaw van at Kumargaon of Sylhet Sadar Upazila. 

In the video when the teen begged for water, he was mocked and told to "drink your sweat" by his attackers who can be heard discussing the idea of posting the video on Facebook so "everyone can see the fate of a thief". 

The boy can be heard pleading, "Please don't beat me like this, I will die."

At one point, he was told to walk away and when he stood up, one attacked shouted, "His bones are okay. Beat him some more."

Samiul was a part-time vegetable seller who dropped out of school to help his impoverished family.

"My son is not a thief. Everyone knows it. I want justice for my child's murder," Samiul's mother Lubna Aktar said.

Locals caught one attacker, Muhith Alam, 22, while he was taking the body to dump in a microbus and turned him over to police.

The others accused are Alam’s brother Kamrul Islam, 24, Ali Haider, 34 and Moyna Mia, 45.

According to AFP via AsiaOne, Police said that the autopsy had revealed scores of injuries all over his body, including on the head and chest. He died due to internal bleeding. 

"His body had at least 64 injuries including in the head." Junior home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said police had arrested two people in connection with the killing and were looking for four others.

"They will be arrested and given tough punishment," Kamal told reporters.