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GUWAHATI: A group of villagers beheaded five people including a man, his wife and teenage daughter, accusing them of practising witchcraft, police said on Tuesday.
The villagers stormed the house of the 55-year-old man in Assam's Kokrajhar district, about 240 km west of the state capital of Dispur, just as the family finished dinner on Monday, a police officer said.
Around the same time, another group raided the house of a couple in a nearby village and hacked them to death.
Nearly a dozen people have been killed in the area in the past week by villagers who accused the victims of practicing witchcraft after many people fell ill due to an undiagnosed disease, a police official said.
"Illiteracy is the main cause of such superstitious beliefs. At the same time, some people with vested interests also take advantage of this to settle personal rivalries," the officer went on to say.
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