The body of a 4-year-old albino kidnapped on Saturday from Bujumbura, Burundi’s largest city, was found dismembered in the northeastern part of the country today, AFP reported, citing the Albinos sans frontières association and an administrative source.
“A 4-year-old albino boy named Abdul was abducted on Saturday afternoon by a group of three killers in a taxi while playing with other children in the Kinama district on the outskirts of Bujumbura,” he told AFP. Albinos sans frontières (ASF) spokesman Sandrak Nahumouremi.
The kidnappers then headed to the province of Cancuzo, 230 kilometers from Bujumbura, where they killed and “dismembered” the body of the little boy, described Nahumouremi and a local official, who did not want to be named. .
“Abdul was killed, then his tormentors cut off his arms and legs before removing the bones and splitting them. “Then they went to dump his remains in a forest in the Kigamba community on Sunday,” the official explained.
“A child guarding a herd saw them and alerted the authorities, which allowed the arrest of two of the three criminals, each of whom was carrying the child’s bones in a backpack,” he said.
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, albino people are hunted and killed, and their limbs and organs are removed to be used for magic rituals that are supposed to bring wealth and fortune.
About 20 albino people have been killed in Burundi since 2008 and their bones have been sold in Tanzania, where such rituals are common, an administrative source said.
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