TANZANIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ALBINO KILLING
July 20, 2010: a Tanzanian court sentenced a 50-year-old man to death by hanging for the ritual murder of an albino in 2008, an official said.
The man allegedly hacked off the limbs of a five-year-old albino girl and drank her blood at midnight.
The High Court in the northern town of Mwanza convicted Kazimiri Mashauri after hearing he disappeared with the severed limbs and left her to die. (Sources: Independent Online, Reuters, 27/07/2010)
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