British man 'lynched in Ecuador' by crowd who 'burned him alive'

A British man has been savagely murdered in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest by a baying mob seeking justice over an alleged shooting.

Local reports said a crowd lynched him and burned him alive after storming a police station where he had been taken into custody.

The unnamed male, widely reported to be 'English' or 'British', was held by uniformed officers on suspicion of shooting a local man dead, reports said.

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