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22 Sept 2014

WUNDANYI, KENYA: Foreign witch doctors have been banned from operating in Taita Taveta County, authorities have said.

Governor John Mruttu has also warned that locals who will be found harbouring them will be arrested and prosecuted.

Scores of people have been killed in the Coast region on suspicion that they were practicing witchcraft with Taita Taveta and Kilifi County the most affected.

"We met and agreed with the county Commissioner Mr Oningoi Ole Sosio that traditional witchdoctors will no longer be allowed to operate in the region. Anyone found harbouring or facilitating their movement will be arrested and prosecuted," Mruttu warned.

Mruttu said this while addressing primary and secondary school heads and school management committees in Voi town during an education conference Monday.

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http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000135812/taita-taveta-county-bans-tanzanian-witch-craft

 

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RE: Kenyan Governor John Mruttu bans Tanzanian witch craft

10 Oct

Dar es Salaam (AFP) - Seven people accused of witchcraft have been burned alive in Tanzania, police said Friday, adding they have arrested 23 people in connection with the crimes.

"They were attacked and burnt to death by a mob of villagers who accused them of engaging in witchcraft," the police chief for the western Kigoma region which borders Burundi, Jafari Mohamed, told AFP.

"Five of those killed were aged over 60, while the other two were aged over 40," he added.

Among those arrested on suspicion of carrying out the killings was the local traditional healer, or witch doctor.

Relatives of those killed described horrific scenes, with the bodies of family members hacked with machetes or burned almost beyond recognition.

http://news.yahoo.com/seven-burned-death-tanzania-witchcraft-attacks-110621571.html

 

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