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A plainclothes policeman catches a woman during a police crackdown on prostitution in Quanzhou, Fujian province, October 29, 2011. China should remove criminal and administrative penalties against sex workers which often lead to serious police abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on May 14, 2013. The abuses include torture, beatings, physical assaults, fines and arbitrary detentions of up to two years, as well as a failure to investigate crimes against sex workers by clients, bosses and state agents, according to the report. Prostitution is not permitted under Chinese law, although the industry has boomed since the country launched economic reforms in 1978. REUTERS/Stringer

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GUATEMALA CITY | Wed Sep 12, 2012 9:26pm EDT

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Angry villagers in Guatemala killed a man by setting fire to him after he hacked two children to death with a machete in a school.

The villagers in Tactic, about 50 miles north of Guatemala City, grabbed the 35-year-old suspect, identified as Julio Saquil, doused him with gasoline and set him ablaze, local authorities said on Wednesday.

"He walked into to one of the classrooms and assaulted the students, completely beheading a 13-year-old boy and slitting the throat of an 8-year-old girl with a machete," Tactic firefighter Wilson Cahuec said.

Local security officials said the dead man had a history of drug problems and violence, but they have not yet identified a motive for the attack.

In 2011, more than 180 people were killed or severely beaten by mobs in Guatemala for their alleged participation in crimes.

(Reporting by Mike McDonald; Editing by Stacey Joyce)
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