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October 15, 2005
Couple killed after being branded witches
Couple killed after being branded witches: "A tribal couple has been hacked to death in West Bengal by villagers who suspected them to be 'witches' responsible for a wave of malarial fever in the area. Reports reaching here on Friday said 55-year-old Soli Oraon and his wife Mungri were branded witches by inhabitants of Darjeeling's Mill Bagan tea estate and killed Wednesday night. They were held responsible for malaria and other diseases affecting slum dwellers in the locality. On Wednesday night, some villagers dragged the elderly couple to a nearby jungle and killed them."
(Via WiccanWeb.ca.)
Posted by mikki at October 15, 2005 03:03 PM
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