Four schoolgirl pals have been arrested in Brazil after torturing a teenage love rival in these shocking scenes they filmed on their mobile phones

The youngsters, aged 13 to 16, dragged their 14-year-old victim into a shallow grave they had dug before hitting her repeatedly round the head and body with a wooden stick and a small machete for nearly four hours after tying her hands and feet together.

The injured girl managed to escape and seek help from locals after her tormentors went to wash blood off their hands before culminating their torture ordeal with what detectives believe was a plan to kill her.Police found the sickening footage on a mobile phone belonging to one of the four teenagers they arrested in Trindade, a city in the central Brazilian state of Goias which is famous for its annual religious celebrations and is one of the country’s most important pilgrimage sites.
The victim was lured to the garden of the house where she was attacked after being told a party was taking place there.
She said: ‘They called me round to their house and when I arrived, they began to hit me.
‘They tied me up and showed me where I was going to be buried.
‘Then they stabbed me and put me in the hole in the ground. I thought I was going to die there.