(It was a hyena that killed the boy, but four elderly women got the blame. Villagers slashed them with machetes then set fire to their bodies for casting spells on the wild animal. “They cut her with machetes,” said Sufia Shadrack, the daughter of one of the murdered women in her small village in Tanzania’s northern Mwanza district. “Then they took firewood, mattresses, an iron sheet and burned her like you would cook fish or meat.”)

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