Police arrest man for burning alive family of four – Vanduzi, Mozambique

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Police arrest man for burning alive family of four – Vanduzi, Mozambique

2:52 CAT | 10 Mar 2016

Manica police in central Mozambique yesterday arrested a man suspected of killing four members of his family on suspicion of witchcraft.

Manica police spokesperson Elcídia Filipe said that the suspect secured his brother’s house door from the outside with wire early on Monday morning before splashing petrol on it and setting it alight, killing his brother and sister-in-law and their two children.

“The investigation established that the perpetrator was the deceased’s brother, who had been to a practitioner who told him to do what he did,” Filipe said.

According to the spokesperson, the man himself suffered burns, raising the suspicions of the police.

The suspect was apprehended in the Barue district trying to leave for Tete, where he lives, and confessed to the crime citing withcraft as a motive. Police say the suspect maintained his brother had used witchcraft to enrich himself at the expense of his family’s lives, including those of the suspect’s children.

Filipe expressed concern about the similarity of the case to others in the past.

“Witchcraft cannot serve to justify any behaviour that breaks the law, to which all must be held accountable,” Filipe said.

Source: Lusa