RANCHI: The Sonua
police have implicated three persons in connection with a witch-craft
- related killing in which a 65-0ld woman and her daughter were killed
at Kasarun village in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Tuesday
night. Officer-In-Charge of Sonua police station said that the
accused are at large now.“However, raid is being carried out to nab
those responsible for the incident” he said.
According
to police, the assailants identified as Nandu Hembrom, Singrai Surin
and Bandhu Melgandi, all the residents of Kasarun village, barged
into the house of a co-villager and accusing Somabari Purty and her
daughter Raimuni Purty (35) of practicing voodoo, dragged them to a
nearby field and killed them with sharp edged weapons on Tuesday night.
Police said the assailants tried to
kill Raimuni’s son Sukhdev also but he escaped somehow and informed
the village headman about the incident.
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