EXPRESS: Shocking images have shown an Egypt where anarchy rules the streets, as a baying mob stripped, beat and hung two men accused of stealing.
In an extreme case of vigilantism, the two young men - accused of stealing a motorised rickshaw - were attacked by a 3,000- strong mob reportedly chanting "kill, them, kill them!"
Shockingly, amidst the crowd, children can be seen laughing and taking pictures of the dying men.
The lynchings came a week after the attorney general's office encouraged civilians to arrest lawbreakers and hand them over to police.
The worsening security in Egypt, coupled with a police strike, prompted the attorney general's call for citizens' arrests last week.
Egypt's Minister of Justice Ahmed Mekki described the incident as an indication of the state's demise following the 2011 uprising.
The minister condemned the deaths, explaining that residents applied the 'Haraba penalty' of Islamic law. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT » | Charlotte Meredith | Monday, March 18, 2013
