UNCENSORED! Shocking video has emerged of a woman being beaten to death by an angry mob in Kabul, Afghanistan. The 27-year-old victim, named only as ‘Farkhunda’ and who is believed to have been mentally ill, was savagely beaten and stomped on by a rampaging mob of Muslim barbarians after she was allegedly seen burning a copy of the quran.

IB Times The video of the attack shows the woman being battered, stamped on and beaten and struck with a piece of wood. One of the attackers hurls a brick at her as she lay on the ground, and others are seen kicking and punching her lifeless body. Her body was then taken to the Kabul river where it was burned.

Several of the men in the video can bee seen filming the attack with their mobile phones. The footage later surfaced on social media websites.

Speaking to the BBC, an eyewitness described the incident saying: “I heard noise, I went and people said that a woman is burning Koran. When I went closer I saw angry people shouting they want to kill the woman. They beat her to death and then threw her on the river side and burned her. Firefighters later came and put out the fire and took the body.”

The head of Kabul’s criminal police General Farid Afzali confirmed reports of the incident and told AFP: “A woman burned a copy of the Koran in the Shahi Doshamshira neighbourhood.”

The woman’s body was then thrown into the Kabul River, Afzali added. Officers arrived at the scene and dispersed the angry crowds made up of ‘thousands of people’ in the area as the incident unfolded.

The victim was accused of setting fire to pages of the Koran, however her parents have told Kabul police that their daughter had suffered with mental illness for many years and had not meant to burn Islam’s holy book.

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