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| Africa: Subsaharan |
| Nigerian Police Arrest 30 in Cult Killings |
| 2004-08-05 |
| EFL Police in eastern Nigeria discovered skulls and corpses of more than 50 people in shrines where a secretive cult was believed to have carried out traditional ritual killings, a police spokesman said Thursday. Two religious leaders and 28 others were arrested in connection with the Wednesday discovery of bleached skulls, fresh corpses and others partly mummified at 20 shrines in forests near the town of Okija, police spokesman Kolapo Shofoluwe told Associated Press. The group is believed to practice a ritual in which parties to a personal dispute — often over business deals — are made to drink a potion that they are told will kill only the guilty party. |
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