Ketermaya Lynching Suspects Released

All eight people arrested over the lynching of a murder suspect by an angry mob in the village of Ketermaya in April have been released, al-Akhbar daily reported Thursday.

The newspaper said that seven suspects were released on different stages and the last was set free several days ago.

It said Abd. Aa was released after DNA tests revealed that murder suspect Mohammed Muslem was already dead when Abd allegedly held a knife at his neck.

The angry mob hanged Muslim's body on a pole with a butcher's hook in a shocking crime.

The lynching took place in Ketermaya, 25 kilometers southeast of Beirut, as police escorted Muslem, the prime suspect in the murder of an elderly couple and their two granddaughters, aged seven and nine, to re-enact the crime.