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Albino body exhumed, parts cut off in Ukerewe
2008-04-11 10:20:18
By Regional Reporters
Mwanza
In a grisly incident linked to witchcraft beliefs, especially with regard to ongoing albino killings in the country, unidentified people have exhumed the body of an albino in Ukerewe District, Mwanza Region, and made away with some of its parts.
In a second incident of its kind in a month in the district, some people believed to be driven by witchcraft beliefs unearthed a grave in which an albino had been buried and made away with the body`s left hand and right leg.
Reports from Ukerewe District said that the event occurred last week at Nakamwa Village in which the body of an albino, Benedicto Riziki (10), who died on March 9, this year, and buried the following day, was exhumed.
``This is the second case to happen here in Ukerewe,` a police source, who preferred anonymity, said.
He explained that last February unidentified persons exhumed an albino's body from a freshly dug grave and disappeared with the whole body in an incident linked to witchcraft beliefs.
Since last year there had been continuous countrywide albino assassinations on superstitious beliefs. At least nine albinos had already been killed in Mwanza Region alone.
2008-04-11 10:20:18
By Regional Reporters
Mwanza
In a grisly incident linked to witchcraft beliefs, especially with regard to ongoing albino killings in the country, unidentified people have exhumed the body of an albino in Ukerewe District, Mwanza Region, and made away with some of its parts.
In a second incident of its kind in a month in the district, some people believed to be driven by witchcraft beliefs unearthed a grave in which an albino had been buried and made away with the body`s left hand and right leg.
Reports from Ukerewe District said that the event occurred last week at Nakamwa Village in which the body of an albino, Benedicto Riziki (10), who died on March 9, this year, and buried the following day, was exhumed.
``This is the second case to happen here in Ukerewe,` a police source, who preferred anonymity, said.
He explained that last February unidentified persons exhumed an albino's body from a freshly dug grave and disappeared with the whole body in an incident linked to witchcraft beliefs.
Since last year there had been continuous countrywide albino assassinations on superstitious beliefs. At least nine albinos had already been killed in Mwanza Region alone.