Indian Family Beheaded in Public

World | March 19, 2006, Sunday // 00:00

An elderly Indian and four of his children were beheaded in public for "withcraft." World media said Sunday that workers in a tea plantation lynched the 60-year-old and four kids, while the man's pregnant wife managed to escape. The killers were accusing the family of using witchcraft to start a disease outbreak, which killed two men. A crowd of up to 200 people carried the corpses of the executed "magicians" to the nearest police post. Six workers were arrested.

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