Killers slice baby from pregnant woman's womb

Police have arrested two women on suspicion of killing of their pregnant neighbour and tearing her baby from her womb in a remote village in western Tanzania, a regional police chief said today.

Prosecutors will file murder charges on Monday against the women, who allegedly paid other killers 60p to help them steal the baby that was later claimed by one of the women as her own on November 25, Kigoma Regional Police Commander Boniface Mgongolwa said.