This comes one week since attorney general encouraged members of the public to arrest lawbreakers and hand them over to the police.
Egypt has experienced a sharp deterioration in security since Egypt's 2011 uprising. Poor security has been worsened and chaos have been sweeping the country as people protest social, political and economic problems.
The men were caught red handed trying to steal a rickshaw. They were dragged in the streets beaten and later hung while they were still alive. A photographer who witnessed the scene said he was told he would be killed if he took pictures of the lynching. police were not able to access the site because residents had cut off the roads to protest a shortage of diesel fuel.
The crowd later took the bodies to a nearby police station and dumped them at the front door. The bodies have since been taken to the morgue for identification.
Similar attacks have happened elsewhere in Egypt, though vigilante killings are not frequent. In 2012 in northern Sharqiya province, police said relatives of a man who was killed when muggers tried to steal his car lynched one of the thieves.
