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They publicly beheaded
them
with machetes; they then
marched to a police station
with victim's heads,
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LINK: Islam
According
to police records,
some 200 people have been
killed in Assam in the past
five years for allegedly prac-
ticing witchcraft.
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Indian "Witchcraft"-family Beheaded
A
family of five has been beheaded in Sonitpur district, north-east India,
by a mob who accused them of witchcraft.
The tea plantation worker and his four children had been blamed for causing
a disease which killed two other workers and made many unwell in Assam
state.
About 200 villagers tried and sentenced the family in an unofficial court,
then publicly beheaded them with machetes.
They then marched to a police station with the heads, chanting slogans
denouncing witchcraft and black magic.
Pregnant wife fled
The
incident occurred at the Sadharu tea plantation near the town of
Biswanath Charali, about 300 km (190 miles) north of Guwahati, Assam's
main city.
Sixty-year-old Amir Munda, who was killed alongside his two daughters and
two sons, was reportedly a traditional healer.
After two plantation workers died and many others became ill from
mysterious illness, other members of the Adivasi Santhal community
accused him and his family of being the cause.
"A trial was held to prove if Munda and his family were involved in casting
evil spells in the tea garden that led to a bout of epidemics in the
area," police officer D Das said. "They said the killings would appease
the gods.
"Munda's pregnant wife and her three young children managed to escape
before the mob killed the other members of the family," A Hazarika, a
local police official, told AFP.
Six people were arrested for the killings, Mr. Hazarika said.
According to police records, some 200 people have been killed in Assam in
the past five years for allegedly practicing witchcraft.
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Lion Kills Man Who
Climbed Into Cage at Ukrainian Zoo
Monday, June 05, 2006
KIEV, Ukraine —
A lion killed a man who climbed into its enclosure in the Ukrainian
capital's zoo, police said Monday.
The lion attacked the
45-year-old Ukrainian late Sunday after he used a rope to climb down
into an enclosure with four lions, said Kiev police spokesman Volodymyr
Polishchuk.
He said the man, who was not identified, was acting
aggressively and the lion seized him by the throat. The man, an ethnic
Azerbaijani, died at the scene.
Ukrainian TV channel NTN
broadcast interviews with witnesses who said the man told them that he
wanted to test God, believing that God would not allow the lions to hurt
him.
Zoo officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198170,00.html
http://www.prophecyfellowship.org/archive/index.php/t-260081.html
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