SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012

Elderly couple stoned by mob for supposedly practicing witchcraft in Zambia, 70 year-old woman dies.

A 70-year-old woman of Luanshya’s Fisenge township has been stoned to death by unknown people on suspicion that she was practising witchcraft with her husband. Copperbelt Commissioner of Police Mary Tembo said in an interview yesterday that the police in Luanshya have launched a manhunt for a group of people who allegedly stoned and killed Catherine Mwape, 70, of house number 176 Fisenge township. She said Mrs Mwape was stoned around 02:00 hours on Monday by unknown people who suspected her and her husband of practising witchcraft.
Full article: http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/index.php/politics/2804-woman-stoned-on-suspicion-of-practising-witchcraft

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