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[Published: Tuesday February 24 2009]

Tanzania illegal healers arrested

Dodoma, 24 Feb-(ANA)-Three traditional healers in northern Tanzania have been arrested for defying a government ban.

It was meant to stop killings of people with albinism for ritual medicine.

Their arrest follows charges against a pastor, who was allegedly found in south-western Tanzania in possession of the body parts of an albino.

The pastor - Cosmas Mwasenga - was arrested in the Mbeya region and faces the death penalty if found guilty.

The three traditional healers had been travelling around the northern district of Serengeti in a car using a public address system to let their clients know that they were still open for business.

Their arrests come days after the murder of a 14-year-old albino girl in the northern Mwanza region, bringing the national death toll to 45 since mid-2007.

The killers reportedly sell albino body parts - including limbs, hair, skin and genitals - to witchdoctors to make potions that purport to make people wealthy.(ANA)

FA/ANA/24 February 2009---


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