A MOB in Mexico has burned alive a pair of suspected child kidnappers after dragging them out of a police station.

Locals in the village of San Vicente Boquerón, in the Acatlán de Osorio region, initially handed over the two men to the authorities.

5 The two men were named as Alberto Flores Morales, 56, and his 21-year-old nephew Ricardo Flores Rodríguez Credit: Televisa.news

But according the local state’s Secretary of Public Safety, a 150 strong mob later gathered outside the police headquarters.

They then broke down the doors, tied ropes to the men, dragged them out and then set fire to them as well as the vehicle they were found in.

Video of the lynching shows locals cheering on as they filmed the burning bodies on the steps of the police building.

The men were named in local media reports as Alberto Flores Morales, 56, and his 21-year-old nephew Ricardo Flores Rodríguez.

Video shows a mob gathered outside the men's cell as others begin hacking their way in to get to them.

Lynch mob break their way into police cell to drag out two 'child kidnap' suspects

5 The mob took filmed the brutal attack on their phones Credit: Televisa.news

5 Petrol being poured over the men by the mob

5 A large mob gathered outside the police station after rumours spread about the two men Credit: Televisa.news

5 Local prosecutors said the men were not involved in any crime Credit: Twitter

In a statement, local prosecutors “ruled out that the deceased had participated in some crime”.

According to other reports the men were drunk and a rumour spread about them being involved in the kidnapping of a child.

The local governor Martha Erika Alonso said the stretched local police had been unable to protect the men, the BBC reported.

“I strongly condemn the lynching that has arisen, it is inadmissible to do justice by one's own hand," she said.

Central and South American including Mexico, Venezuela, Bolivia and Guatemala have seen an upsurge in reported lynchings in recent years.

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Raúl Rodríguez Guillén, who has been studying the phenomenon in Mexico for 20 years, said rising crime and poor policing is behind more people taking the law into their own hands.

"The most serious thing that is happening is that authority is eroding and that in the long term I think it is more serious than the growth of crime," he said.

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