World: Six-Year-Old Killed For Her Body Parts; Powerful Quake Hits Panama Overnight

hbarber — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:04:59 +0000

Six-year-old girl killed for her body parts. In East Africa’s Burundi, a 6-year-old albino girl was found brutally murdered, with her head and limbs cut off, reports the BBC. The day of the killing, attackers broke into her home, tied up her parents and shot her in the head, said local officials. Killing albinos for their body parts has become a disturbing trend in the country as well as in neighboring Tanzania because witchdoctors have claimed their limbs can be for magic potions. But this was not always the case in Burundi. According to Kasim Kazungu, who heads Burundi Albinos’ Association, albinos were not a target until word got out about the money they could make from selling body parts in Tanzania. And, recently, a man in Tanzania was arrested for trying to sell his albino wife to traders from Congo. This is the sixth albino person in Burundi killed since September.
Powerful quake hits Panama overnight. An earthquake measuring 6.2 in magnitude shook Panama overnight, reports Reuters. It hit at 1:11 a.m. local time about 35 miles from David, Panama. While tremors were felt in the capital of neighboring Costa Rica, there are no immediate reports of damage there, according to the nation’s emergency commission. People in Panama, who called into a local radio station, said they felt the quake intensely along with several aftershocks. Another caller, who said he was a Red Cross worker, reported that there wasn’t any signs of major structural damage or landslides near the quake’s epicenter, reports Reuters.

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World: Six-Year-Old Killed For Her Body Parts; Powerful Quake Hits Panama Overnight