Indian mob lynch couple over ‘witchcraft’ deaths

19 December 2016 07:51 am

NEW DELHI AFP Dec17, 2016 -A mob beat to death an elderly couple accused of witchcraft in eastern India, police said Saturday, the second such killing in the region in two weeks.   
Three people have been arrested over the lynching, police said, adding that the couple, both in their late sixties, had been suspected of using black magic to kill their neighbours in a remote tribal district of Jharkhand state.