A mob thrashed four persons on Tuesday while accusing them of attempting to kidnap children in an auto rickshaw in Palghar district of  Maharashtra, police said.

The Vasai police have arrested four suspects who allegedly posed as eunuchs and attempted to kidnap two girls, aged 13 and 14, in Naigaon near Vasai Road.

According to the police, the accused arrived in an auto-rickshaw and tried to abduct the girls, threatening them with a knife as the victims were returning home from school on their bicycles.