Roing, July 12 -- A 19-year-old youth, accused of sexually assaulting minors, was allegedly lynched by a mob outside Roing police station in Arunachal Pradesh's Lower Dibang Valley district.

The incident took place outside the police station on Friday afternoon.

The deceased, reportedly a migrant labourer from Assam, was accused of sexually assaulting several minor girl students.

Ringu Ngupok, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Lower Dibang Valley district, told ANI over a phone call that the police tried to control the mob of 500-600 people, but still they managed to pull the accused out of the police station.

SP Ngupok said, "We had conducted a search operation to catch the accused person on the whole Thursday night, and some locals c...