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Woman killed on charges of witchcraft

By A Correspondent

JORABAT, Aug 23 - A 60-year-old woman was killed in Panitiola village in Umtru under Ri-Bhoi district in Meghalaya for �allegedly practicing witchcraft�.

Police said Meeru Tudu, a tea garden worker, was brutally murdered by a man named Nayan Baski (28) and that he has confessed to the crime.

The accused Nayan Baski, also a tea garden worker, suspected that her wife�s ill health was caused by the �witchcraft practised� by Meeru Tudu.

�This has led to an altercation between the two and eventually Baski hit Tudu with a stick leading to her death,� Police said.

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