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HARROWING footage has emerged of a transgender woman begging for her life before beaten to death.

A gang of six men laugh and cheer as they beat 42-year-old Dandara dos Santos leaving her bloodied and bruised.

They then fling her into a wheelbarrow before taking her away to a side street where she was allegedly then murdered.

The incident took place last month in Fortaleza, north eastern Brazil, with much of the horrific ordeal filmed on a smartphone.

She is the latest in a long line of transgender people murdered in Latin America.

The footage was released in an effort to track down Ms Santos’ killers.

The video shows Ms Santos being dragged from her home and beaten by the men with shoes and planks of wood.

In Portuguese, the attackers taunt her with homophobic and transphobic insults. They mock her breasts and shout that they “will kill the faggot”.

Ms Santos can be seen wiping blood from her face and looking in fear at her attackers, her clothes ripped, torn and splattered with her blood. She pleads with the men to spare her.

However, the men keep abusing the woman and can be seen lifting her into a wheelbarrow before carting her away.

Fortaleza Police Inspector Damasceno said the video had helped identify six people, reported the Mirror.

“The footage was first circulated among LGBT groups which helped that process,” he said.

“The police began circulating the clip and we arrived at the house of two of the people identified but they fled.

“The investigation is already well advanced and we are going after the killers.”

Brazil has legalised same-sex marriage but, nevertheless, the country can still be dangerous for LGBTI people particularly those who are transgender.

According to Brazil’s Trans Network, Ms Santos was the fifth transgender person to be murdered last month.

The Ceará regional government has condemned the killings.

Globally, one transgender person is murdered every three days. More than 2000 transgender people were unlawfully killed between 2008 and 2015, of these 800 were in Brazil alone.

In 2014, Australian trans woman Mayang Prasetyo was murdered with her body found dismembered in her Brisbane apartment.

Ms Prasetyo’s husband Marcus Volke fled the apartment when police arrived to find him boiling her remains, and took his own life in a nearby industrial bin.