Stealing is one of the oldest professions in the world. In many countries the most traditional way of treating thieves, caught in doing their business, is beating them to near death. Its very common that thieves dies in the beating event. Sometimes police is involved in the beating as well.

Take a look at these pictures.

Pic: Shows Mohammed Aurangzeb being beaten up by a mob in Bhagalpur district, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, August 28, 2007. Police in Bihar helped a mob beat a suspected thief in front of a television camera.

PIC: Same man above who tried to steal a chain was savagely beaten by a mob and police in eastern India and then tied by cops to a motorcycle and dragged through the mud.

PIC: Guatemalan University students beat a suspected thief 

PIC: A suspected thief waits for medical help after being beaten by a group of residents during an eviction operation at an illegally occupied building on the corner of Nugget and Jeppe streets in Johannesburg. The man allegedly tried to steal items belonging to evicted residents.

PIC: A thief caught in Shanghai, China