[World News] Five Women Killed Over Witchcraft Claims

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Five Women Killed Over Witchcraft Claims
Source: Sky News.

Five women who were accused of witchcraft have been beaten to death by dozens of people in India.

The women were dragged out of their homes in Kinjia in the state of Jharkhand and hit with sticks and iron rods, police said.

Residents blamed them for a string of misfortunes and accidents in the village, including the death of an infant earlier in the week.

Police have arrested 50 people in connection with the attack and deployed officers at the scene to prevent further violence.

Chief Minister of the state Raghubar Das said: "In the age of knowledge, this incident is sorrowful. Society should ponder over it.”

From 2000 to 2012, around 2,100 people, mostly women, were killed in India on suspicion of practising witchcraft, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.