A Guatemalan official says an angry mob beat to death a man suspected of helping to rob a bus and rape two passengers.
Government spokesman Nery Morales says townspeople in San Pedro Yepocapa captured the man hours after the Tuesday bus attack, pummeling him with sticks and metal tubes until he died.
Morales says the mob also beat a police officer who tried to intervene and set fire to the local police station, some 25 miles west of the nation's capital.
Crowds often seek vigilante justice in Guatemala. Officials estimate more than 300 people have died in similar incidents there since 1996.
