Black magic murders
• Superstitious Folly
Female ghosts are said to be committing crimes in Hyderabad, India.
Black-magic killers struck last week in a town 280 km from the cyber city, which is shivering for fear of ghostly prowlers.
Three-year-old Bande Nawaj was found dead, with torture marks on his body, at his parents’ doorstep yesterday in Kurnool district’s Adoni town, known as the grain market of the south. ...
The police say the boy was bled to death with hundreds of safety pins that were used to puncture his body; his penis was missing. “We are investigating the killing,” said inspector K. Anand Rao of the urban police station in Adoni. ...
Pasha, however, suspects the second of his three children was sacrificed because of his good stars. “Astrologers who studied my son’s horoscope said he will be a great leader and earn fame.”