Five Women Murdered

The Associated Press
Saturday, August 8, 2015 12:06PM EDT 

PATNA, India -- Dozens of villagers in eastern India beat to death five women Saturday, accusing them of practicing witchcraft and blaming them for a series of misfortunes in the village, police said.

Residents of Kinjia village in Jharkhand state dragged the women out of their homes and beat them with sticks and iron rods, said Arun Kumar Singh, a deputy inspector-general of police in Ranchi, Jharkhand's capital.

The attackers blamed the women for several accidents and misfortunes suffered by villagers, including the death of an infant in Kinjia earlier in the week, Singh said.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/5-women-accused-of-witchcraft

What do you reckon? Were the murderers atheists, or deeply religious?

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I wonder who will get the property owned by the murdered women? Their close relatives - or the people who started the rumours and instigated the attacks? Strange how things always seems to advantage the attackers in these situations.

Christians used to do the same thing during their 600 years of Inquisitions. If the local priest wanted that big house across the road from the church, he simply accused the owner of witchcraft - and when they were found guilty the priest took possession.