67 women arrested for killing suspected sorcerer

Police arrested 67 women in southern India on charges of murder after they allegedly killed a man suspected of being a black magic sorcerer.

Parvathalu, a barber, was beaten and locked up in his shop by a group of 150 women who then set fire to the shop in Muddireddypalli village, said C. Satyanarayana, a local police officer.