A 50-year-old cloth vendor who was robbed and assaulted by a mob, had his ears cut off and was branded with an iron rod in Nalanda district last week, died during treatment on Friday night, officials said.

Mohammad Athar Hussain, a resident of Gagan Diwan village who sold clothes on a bicycle, died late Friday night at Pawapuri VIMS hospital, where he was undergoing treatment after a mob allegedly accosted him while he was peddling his wares on December 5 and beat him up. Six people have been arrested and two minors detained so far, police said.

According to his brother Mohammad Shakib Alam, Hussain, who also lived partly with his in-laws in Barui village, was returning home when his bicycle broke down near Bhattapar village under Roh police station, forcing him to look for a puncture sh

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