The STAR has received reports that a mob ganged and beat a man severely after he was accused of buggering a young boy in downtown Kingston yesterday.

"Him get some lick man. Me did believe him dead because when me did a leave him did a lie down with him face down," an eyewitness told the STAR.

Another eyewitness explained that, "me go down deh and see a crowd a beat a man and police tek the crowd off a him ... police and soldier come tek weh the man."

The man was also apparently attacked with planks and stones by the mob.

The incident is believed to have happened at around 2 p.m. in bushes close to the entrance of the Portmore bus park.

"Dem get the fire and tyre fi light him and the police seh no," another person who claimed to witness the incident told the STAR.

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Another eyewitness told the STAR that he was a passenger on a bus entering the bus park when he saw a male child believed to be no older than six years old, with his pants down.

Other passengers also saw the partially dressed child and raised an alarm.

Shortly afterwards, persons who went to investigate were said to have seen the accused man hiding in bushes close by to where the child was seen standing.

The man was then attacked by the mob that converged as the news spread like wildfire.

"The likkle boy seemed traumatised,"one of the eyewitnesses told the STAR.

The boy was reportedly handed over to a group of soldiers and a police who were in a military vehicle nearby.

THE STAR made several attempts to receive police confirmation of the incident but was informed that no formal report was made about the matter.

Deputy Superintendent of Police in charge of the Kingston Western Division, Arthur Brown, who made checks, told the STAR that " I haven't got any reports of that."