Shillong, Oct 16: In a second such case this week, a man was rescued by police with help from village leaders after being suspected of being a ‘menshohnoh’, someone believed to sacrifice humans to the mythical thlen for economic prosperity.

At around 8am today, information was received by police from the headman of Lawmei, a village in the Diengiei area, that a mob wanted to lynch a man, identified as Nicolas Lyngkhoi (39), on suspicion of being a menshohnoh.

Personnel from Lumdiengjri Police Station and Special Operation Team (SOT) rushed to Lawmei. Lyngkhoi was being sheltered in the village hall to keep him away from the mob.

According to Lyngkhoi, a resident of Ktiehthawiar under Mawshynrut block, he works as a woodcutter in Umiam. Yesterday, at around 9pm, he left Umiam to spend a

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