Cairo - An Egyptian man was beaten to death after he allegedly raped and murdered a teenage girl in a Nile Delta village.

According to a security official, angry residents of Quesna in Menufiya province beat him then dragged his body through the streets on Sunday.

This incident makes it the latest lynching case with vigilante justice on the rise amid growing lawlessness.

The man was accused of raping the 16-year-old girl before stabbing her to death.

Egypt has witnessed growing security problems since the uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

There have been several reports of lynchings in recent months.

In May, an angry mob lynched the teenage son of a Muslim Brotherhood leader, accusing him of killing a man over Facebook comments that were critical of the Islamist movement.

Villagers in Sharqiya province beat up a man and then lynched him in March, accusing him of car theft days after residents of another town strung up two men accused of kidnapping a girl.

