TANZANIA: 'Witches' Accused Of Making Men Sexually Impotent Hacked To Death
Two women in Tanzania were hacked to death after accusing them of casting spells that made men sexually impotent, police said on Friday. ...
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Two women in Tanzania were hacked to death after accusing them of casting spells that made men sexually impotent, police said on Friday.
The killing took place in the village of Ihugi in Tanzania's northern Shinyanga province late on Tuesday, a report said.
The victims, mother and daughter, were aged 80 and 45 respectively.
Three men slit their throats and then chopped their bodies up.
Their neighbour was suspected of carrying out the attack after he believed they had made him unable to have sex.
A 40-year-old man, who also accused the women of poisoning his mother last year, has been arrested.
"The victims were attacked as they were about to take their evening meal," the report quoted local police chief Kamugisha as saying.
The attack comes after seven people were killed in western Tanzania last week. They were accused of witchcraft and burned alive in their huts.
Belief in witches and black magic remains strong in many parts of Tanzania.
A local rights group has estimated as many as 500 "witches" are lynched every year.
Many of those killed were elderly women.
The rights group said some are targeted because they have red eyes - seen as a feared sign of witchcraft - even though this is often the result of the use of dung as cooking fuel in impoverished communities.
Source: India Today
The killing took place in the village of Ihugi in Tanzania's northern Shinyanga province late on Tuesday, a report said.
The victims, mother and daughter, were aged 80 and 45 respectively.
Three men slit their throats and then chopped their bodies up.
Their neighbour was suspected of carrying out the attack after he believed they had made him unable to have sex.
A 40-year-old man, who also accused the women of poisoning his mother last year, has been arrested.
"The victims were attacked as they were about to take their evening meal," the report quoted local police chief Kamugisha as saying.
The attack comes after seven people were killed in western Tanzania last week. They were accused of witchcraft and burned alive in their huts.
Belief in witches and black magic remains strong in many parts of Tanzania.
A local rights group has estimated as many as 500 "witches" are lynched every year.
Many of those killed were elderly women.
The rights group said some are targeted because they have red eyes - seen as a feared sign of witchcraft - even though this is often the result of the use of dung as cooking fuel in impoverished communities.
Source: India Today
