Feb. 8, 2013 6:50am
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea
(TheBlaze/AP) — It’s a disturbing case — one that seems improbable in
the modern era. A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of
witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of horrified
witnesses in a Papua New Guinea town, police said Friday. It was the
latest sorcery-related killing in this South Pacific island nation.
Bystanders, including many children,
watched and some took photographs of Wednesday’s brutal slaying. Grisly
pictures were published on the front pages of the country’s biggest
circulating newspapers.
Kepari Leniata, a 20-year-old mother,
had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who died in
the hospital the day before.
She was tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in gasoline, and
then set alight on a pile of car tires and trash in the Western
Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen, national police spokesman
Dominic Kakas said.
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