Family Of Five Accused Of ‘w*tchcraft’ Burnt To Death By Villagers

As reported people, five people including 3 children in Kenya were brutally burnt to death in their home by neighbors who accused a member of the family of indulge in witchcraft, said by police on Friday.

The burnt victim was two women and three girls, aged two, three and seven, died in the attack on Thursday in Migori county in Kenya’s south-west, said local police officer Peter Kirui.

Four other members of the one family are in hospital after the arson, including the family patriarch, Elijah Otieno, who was the one suspected of practicing witchcraft.

Is a well known issue in Africa were men as well as women, can be accused of witchcraft or sorcery. The villagers had accused Otieno of making another man sick, as stated by police.