Afghanistan's top criminal investigator has found that the woman beaten to death last week for burning pages from a Quran was wrongly accused, The Associated Press reports. Thirteen people, including eight police officers, have been arrested in connection with her death.

Nine men believed to have been participants in a mob that dragged, beat, and killed a woman after she was accused of burning pages from the Quran have been arrested, The New York Times reports. The woman's parents said she had suffered from mental illness for most of her life.