5 Women Accused Of Being Witches Beaten To Death In India

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Source: AP

PATNA, India (AP) — Dozens of villagers in eastern India beat to death five women Saturday, accusing them of practicing witchcraft and blaming them for a series of misfortunes in the village, police said.

Residents of Kinjia village in Jharkhand state dragged the women out of their homes and beat them with sticks and iron rods, said Arun Kumar Singh, a deputy inspector-general of police in Ranchi, Jharkhand's capital.

The attackers blamed the women for several accidents and misfortunes suffered by villagers, including the death of an infant in Kinjia earlier in the week, Singh said.

Police have arrested around 50 people involved in the attack, Singh said. A large number of police officers have been deployed in the village to prevent any outbreak of violence.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/08/08/witches-beaten-to-death-india_n_7959682.html

[JohnnyRingo]

1. India has a nuclear arsenal

Worrisome that a country that appears in many ways stuck in a previous century has such capability.

Then again, we have Bobby Jindal.

[inanna]

2. Remind me what year we're living in please. n/t

[Boomerproud]

3. Insanity.

Those poor women, only dead because of their gender and the where they live.

[angrychair]

4. Coming soon

To a town in Texas or Kansas near you!

[Skittles]

5. pathetic

[Behind the Aegis]

6. What century is this?!

This is beyond sad.