“He looked like a terrorist!” How a drive in rural India ended in a mob attack and a lynching

Mohammed Aslam, brother of Mohammed Azam, who was lynched by a mob, looks out of his house as people gather to give their condolences to the family in Hyderabad, India, July 18, 2018. Picture taken July 18, 2018. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

MURKI/MUMBAI, India (Reuters) - In the tiny hamlet of Murki in the hinterlands of south India, Inspector V.B. Yadwad surveyed a pile of bricks and stones in a ditch where he and other police officers had been attacked earlier this month while trying to save a group of five men on a road trip from a violent mob.

"We tried hard to stop them," said Yadwad, pointing to injuries on his back. "They wouldn't listen to anyone."