The official and witnesses said the incident happened after accusations made by members of the ruling party's powerful youth ...

New Delhi — Police have arrested three people suspected of brutally murdering five members of a family who were accused of ...

Police in rural India are investigating the murder of five members of the same family who were accused by a mob of witchcraft ...

Laws targeting harmful practices related to witchcraft accusations exist in 15 countries, but are infrequently used and alone are insufficient to prevent violence and human rights abuses.

Witchcraft beliefs persist in rural India, particularly in isolated tribal communities, with more than 1,500 people killed on ...

A special investigation team in Purnea, Bihar, is tasked to apprehend the suspects in the brutal murder of five family ...

Three people have been arrested in India’s eastern state of Bihar after five members of a family were brutally killed on suspicion of performing witchcraft on children.. A mob of about 50 people ...

In the picturesque villages along Kenya's coastal region -- where the Indian Ocean breeze whispers through coconut palms and sand-covered paths wind through homesteads -- a sinister crisis is ...

In yet another case of superstition claiming lives, five members of a family have been set ablaze in Bihar's Purnia district on suspicion of practising 'witchcraft'.