NEW DELHI – A group of people pulled out the teeth of six elderly personsand forced them to consume human excreta at a village in Odisha’s Ganjamdistrict suspecting them of practising witchcraft, police said on Wednesday.
A group of people of Goparpur village suspected that the six elderly menpractised witchcraft which caused the death of at least three women andsickness of seven others in the locality, police said, PTI has reported.
They forcibly dragged the six men from their houses on Tuesday night andforced them to consume human excreta before pulling out their teeth, thepolice said.
The pleas of the six victims for help failed to evoke any response fromother villagers.
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As the information reached the district headquarters the superintendent ofpolice Brijesh Rai along with a police team rushed to the village andrescued them.
All the injured elderly persons, all aged over 60 years, have been admittedat the hospital where their condition is stated to be stable.
