Man allegedly beaten to death after his bike hits teenager in Meerut

LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: A man was allegedly beaten to death by a group of villagers after a motorcycle that he was riding hit a teenager in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut, sources said.

Two more men who were on the motorcycle suffered serious injuries and are in a critical condition, sources said. Four people have been arrested, the police said.

The tension broke out in the town after the villagers surrounded the police station and asked the policemen to free the four men.

In a mobile phone video, the villagers numbering some 20 men are seen thrashing one of the three men who came on the motorcycle. The other two are seen lying on the ground and writhing from the blows they have received.

The villagers hurl abuse at them as they continue their attack. The motorcycle lies on its side near a hand-pump across a concrete drain.