Two women have been tortured for three days and then beheaded in a remote village in Papua New Guinea after being accused of witchcraft.
A team of police rushed to the scene - but were forced to stand by and watch the victims being decapitated with axes as locals refused to let them come to their aid.A large crowd kept the police at bay within sight of the clearing where the women were lying trussed up on the ground.
Villagers on the island of Bougainville ignored orders to let them go, and instead set about them with axes and knives.
The women, from the village of Tandorima, were accused of using sorcery to kill a popular schoolteacher who died a few weeks ago. As if that was not bad enough, the police could not help because they were "threatened". Hear the police chief - We couldn't do anything to help these two women,' said Central Bougainville police chief Herman Birengka.
The gruesome murders follow a number of sorcery-related killings on the Papua New Guinea mainland, mostly in remote highland villages.
Earlier this year a young woman accused of being a witch and causing the death of a young boy was dragged to a rubbish dump and burned alive, with police once again unable to help because of threats by the crowd.'I wish we could have helped these two women,' said Mr Birengka in a reference to the latest killings. 'But the villagers who had kidnapped the women were armed with five high-powered firearms, knives and axes.'
Hard to believe all these with all the civilization in the world. GOD help us.
As gruesome as the Aluu killings in Nigeria. So much for civilisation!!!
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