I once heard about a mob killing a foregin engineer doing volunteer work at a rural school because a rumor spread on some IM platform that he was abducting chil

I once heard about a mob killing a foregin engineer doing volunteer work at a rural school because a rumor spread on some IM platform that he was abducting children. India sure is different. This action might have a very different context than what we Westerners assume. Or not. Maybe a local can explain if there is a difference.