Nawada: Incidents of people taking law into their hand continued in Bihar with another suspected thief being lynched at Badahori in Nawada district.

A group of people caught hold of one Amrik Rajbanshi and beat him to death after he and four others were suspected to have committed theft at a house, police said.

A case was registered against unknown persons. The incident came close on the heels of lynching of two kidnappers by angry residents at Mahnagani in West Champaran district on Sunday.

Earlier, two persons were beaten to death in Patna on suspicion of being robbers on September 21 and ten suspected thieves lynched in Vaishali district two days later.

A mob gouged out the eyes of three young men who had snatched away a motorcycle in Nawada district on September nine. The wave of mob violence in the state started when a youth, who had allegedly snatched a woman's gold chain, was severely beaten up by a crowd and later tied to a motorcycle and dragged on the road by police in Bhagalpur district on August 28.