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Mozambique: Man detained after killing aunt for ‘being a witch’
2:39 CAT | 14 Jan 2022
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– The Mozambican police arrested a man who killed his 51-year-old aunt with a machete on suspicion of witchcraft, blaming her for his “lack of luck,” a source told Lusa.
The crime occurred in the early hours of Monday in Zambezia, central Mozambique, and the man was arrested the next day.
The young man, 25, resident in Maputo, the country’s capital, had travelled to Zambezia province to expose his difficulties in life and, at a meeting, said that “his aunts were to blame for his love and financial problems,” said the spokesman for the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) in Zambezia, Miguel Caetano.
“He returned to his homeland for this purpose,” Miguel Caetano said, adding that this is the third case of death for suspected witchcraft that has occurred in Zambezia this year.
The murder of elderly people in rural Mozambique is a frequent crime and usually perpetrated by relatives, who accuse them of supernatural acts, blaming them for family disagreements and misfortune.
In Inhambane province alone, in southern Mozambique, at least 17 elderly people were killed in 2020 due to accusations of witchcraft, primarily by relatives, according to the latest figures provided by the police.
Source: Lusa
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