India: Village illness causes Assam mob to behead elderly woman, accused of ‘witchcraft’
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#EZD4)
A 63-year-old woman from Sonitpur district in Assam state in India has been killed because of accusations of being a witch, according to a NDTV video news report. Apparently, villagers blamed the elderly woman, identified as Purni Orang, for an unspecified illness outbreak in the village. The woman was dragged out of her house by a mob of ["]
