"The victim had gone to help her son who had been bound to the tree by angry vigilantes who accused them of trying to steal a car in Caranavi, Bolivia, around 100 miles north east of the capital La Paz."
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The Bolivian woman and two of her children were tied to a tree that was infested with poisonous ants. She died in hospital after developing severe throat swelling