Attackers hack off the hand of a seven-year-old albino boy in Tanzania to use body part in witchcraft

The boy was walking home with four school friends when he was attacked
It is the latest in a series of assaults on albino people in the country
Days early a mother of four had her arm chopped off by a machete
Albino body parts can fetch thousands of dollars and believed to bring luck

Attackers collecting body parts of albinos for witchcraft hacked off the hand of a seven-year-old boy, officials said today.
The boy was walking home with his friends in Tanzania when he was seized by the men.
It is the latest in a series of bloody assaults on albino people.

The seven-year-old Tanzanian boy was attacked as he walked home with four school friends and his arm was hacked off.

Apolinary Macheta, the local government leader in Tanzania's southwestern Milepa district, said: 'The boy was attacked on Saturday by three people as he walked home with his four school friends.'

The boy named Mwigulu Magessa, is recovering in hospital, Macheta added.

In Tanzania, albinos are killed and dismembered due to a widespread belief that charms made from their body parts bring good fortune and prosperity.
Albinism is a genetic condition characterised by a deficiency of melanin pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes which protects from the sun's ultraviolet rays.

Human rights groups have called the rise in attacks on albino people 'alarming'. They are targetted and dismembered due to a belief their body parts bring good fortune

People suffering from the condition are discriminated against and persecuted in many African countries.

Such ritual killings have also occurred in neighbouring Burundi and some of the attackers are suspected to be from Tanzania, where albino body parts can fetch thousands of dollars.


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