A man is nursing a serious beating after angry residents pounced at him on Monday night when he tried to sneak a school girl into a lodging.

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Sources said the man lured the girl after she missed a matatu to school and led her into a lodging at the notorious Kanu Street in Langalanga.

A guard at one of the lodgings learned of the man’s intention and set him up to an angry crowd.

The girl narrated how the man had posed as a Good Samaritan and willing to take her to his relative where she would spend the night and then proceed to school the next day.

The suspect was rescued by police and taken to Bondeni police station.