An American tourist died in Goa after allegedly being chased down and beaten up by the locals and police.

At about 1.30pm on Tuesday, he dumped his bag in a house at Deulwada in North Goa district. He then started misbehaving with the locals.

Sources said that he tried to grab the keys of some of the scooters in the locality. Later, he rushed to the main junction in the village and continued behaving abnormally which scared the women in the locality.

“He was totally out of control and was running helter-skelter, he went to one house asking for tea, he also stopped the two wheelers and tried to grab the key,” a eyewitness told TOI.

Eyewitness said that locals wanted the man to be under control. Some thought he was a thief as many of thefts have taken place in the area in the recent past.