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Mobs fearing a cholera epidemic have killed people whom they had accused of trying to spread the disease, including through witchcraft, police say.
”A dozen people accused of importing cholera to a region that so far has been spared were killed with machetes and stones and their corpses were burned in the streets,” a police inspector said.
A prosecutor, Kesner Numa, said: ”These people are accused of witchcraft related to cholera.” The attackers believed the victims were trying to ”plant a substance that spreads the disease in the region”.
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