An Indian couple and four of their children were hacked to death by a mob of villagers who accused them of practicing witchcraft and making their children sick, police in the eastern state of Odisha said on Monday.
The victims were asleep in their mud house in the hamlet of Lahanda in Keonjhar district, when a group of around five people armed with axes broke in.
The suspects, believed to be relatives of the family, accused the victims of being behind a spate of frequent illnesses among infants in the village, said police.
District Superintendent of Police Kavita Jalan said two surviving children alerted authorities.
The police reached the village in the early hours of Monday to find the mutilated bodies in pools of blood, an axe abandoned inside the hut, and a young boy still alive. Full story...
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The victims were asleep in their mud house in the hamlet of Lahanda in Keonjhar district, when a group of around five people armed with axes broke in.
The suspects, believed to be relatives of the family, accused the victims of being behind a spate of frequent illnesses among infants in the village, said police.
District Superintendent of Police Kavita Jalan said two surviving children alerted authorities.
The police reached the village in the early hours of Monday to find the mutilated bodies in pools of blood, an axe abandoned inside the hut, and a young boy still alive. Full story...
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