Tanzanian police said on Friday that 34 suspects were arrested following the killing of four villagers from the same family after they were suspected of involving in witchcraft. Liberatus Sabas, Chief of Police Operations and Training, said that the suspects were arrested in a crackdown in the Kigoma region between Jan. 4 and Jan. 9, 2020. On Jan. 4, authorities said that four villagers from the same family were killed and their houses demolished by fellow villagers in western Tanzania. Evans Buchonko, a Councillor for Msambara Ward in Kasulu District in Kigoma Region, said that the victims included a pregnant woman. Buchonko said that a group of angry villagers raided houses of the victims on Friday afternoon and attacked them with machetes.

Source: Punch January 10, 2020 19:18 UTC