Two elderly women accused of practising witchcraft in Papua New Guinea were tortured and murdered by a group of men who dragged their bodies to a riverbank and burnt them, police say.
A manhunt is under way for the offenders following Monday’s killings near the banks of the Bumbu River in the port city of Lae, regional police chief Giossi Labi said.
He described the actions of the killers from one of the city’s squatter settlements as “animalistic and inhuman”.
“This is a city and one would think people would be more civilised,” he told PNG’s Post-Courier newspaper.
Police were hunting the killers, who would be charged with first degree murder, he said.
The two women from PNG’s Eastern Highlands Province were accused of using sorcery to cause the death of a young man, community leader Nelson Zatura said.
A manhunt is under way for the offenders following Monday’s killings near the banks of the Bumbu River in the port city of Lae, regional police chief Giossi Labi said.
He described the actions of the killers from one of the city’s squatter settlements as “animalistic and inhuman”.
“This is a city and one would think people would be more civilised,” he told PNG’s Post-Courier newspaper.
Police were hunting the killers, who would be charged with first degree murder, he said.
The two women from PNG’s Eastern Highlands Province were accused of using sorcery to cause the death of a young man, community leader Nelson Zatura said.
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