Patna, May 23 (Inditop) A man accused of raping a four-year-old girl was Saturday lynched by a mob in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, police said.

Subhash Yadav, in his mid 20s, was beaten to death by an irate group of people in Naugachia in Bhagalpur after he allegedly raped the small girl Friday evening, an official said.

Yadav, an auto-rickshaw driver, was caught from a house he was hiding in and thrashed, which led to his death.

Police said a case has been filed into the incident are investigations are under way.