Five members of a family were accused of witchcraft and brutally killed by a mafia in India, according to the police

New Delhi – The police arrested three people suspected of brutally murdering five members of a family accused of witchcraft in the Eastern Indian state of Bihar. Police said the victims were pirate until death and their bodies burned by a multitude of dozens of residents in the town of Tema on Sunday night.

Three women were among the victims, said the police, who recovered the carbonized remains of the family on Monday night. According to reports, residents suspected that the family caused the fatal disease of a local child.

“We have arrested three defendants so far,” News PRMOD Kumar Mandal, deputy inspector of the District of Purnea, told News, where the incident took place, News themezone.

Mandal confirmed that the victims had been accused of witchcraft and identified them as Babu Lal Oraon, 50, along with his mother Kanto Devi, 70 years old and his wife and two adult children.

The 16 -year -old son was the only family survivor. He told the Police that a multitude of around 50 people broke into his house around 10 in the afternoon of Sunday, accusing his mother of witchcraft and then attacking the family with weapons with blades, said the newspaper Hindustan Times cited a police officer.

The incident occurred about 10 days after a child died in the village due to a disease. On Sunday night, the child’s brother also fell ill, and the villagers suspected that witchcraft is the cause, which caused the assault on Oraon’s family, NDTV reported, citing the police.

The Bihar Police formed a dedicated team to investigate the murders.

Sweety Sahrawat, a police superintendent in Purnea, who directs the investigation, told News themezone that his team would arrest all other suspicious participation in the attack “as soon as possible.”

Sahrawat said that many residents of the village were suspected of participation in the attack, and many residents were not helping the police identify the attackers.

The cases of attacks against people accused of witchcraft are not uncommon in India and other countries in southern Asia. Governments and activists have fought to end the attacks, which are based on superstitions of centuries of antiquity.

Belief in witchcraft is also common in some rural communities in Western Africa and in other parts of the continent. Earl this month, Six people accused of witchcraft They were burned alive, stoned or beaten until death by a militia in Burundi.

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