Sebastian Woodroffe, 41, was slain after villagers accused him of being responsible for the shooting death of plant medicine healer Olivia Arévalo.

The video shows a man groaning in a puddle near a thatched-roof structure as another man puts a rope around his neck and drags him with others looking on.

A Canadian man was lynched in the Peruvian Amazon after residents of a remote village accused him of killing an 81-year-old medicine woman a day earlier, a spokesman for the attorney general's office said.