A suspicious woman of witchcraft is burned alive in Papua New Guinea

In the countryside of Papua New Guinea, a woman has been assassinated wildly after being tied and being gaged to a trunk and being set afire in a battery of tires, this same week. The villagers suspected that he could be sorceress, according to made public yesterday the police Thursday.

Its death is added to an increasing list of cases that have been accused of witchcraft and soon tortured and assassinated in the Asian country, where these archaic beliefs still are very ingrained in the rural population.

The victims usually are chivos expiatorios of the community, being executed by their supposed magical powers, according to informed the police.

Image of native of Papua New Guinea

The facts took place past Tuesday when a group of villagers lead to the woman of 20 years to a garbage dump in the outskirts of Mount Hagen. They undressed it, tied of feet and hands, and with a jaw in the mouth, it was moored to a trunk where fire catch oned to him.

A local newspaper informed that more than 50 people they were assassinated by presumed practices of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea during the past year.

In the last years, AIDS to caused 6.7 million of died in this country, blaming the villagers to these sorceresses and not to the virus of the death of these people.

According to United Nations, Papua New Guinea represents 90% of the cases of HIV in the Pacific and is one of the 4 countries with more cases of all Asia.

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