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muriel_volestrangler

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Tue Aug 22, 2017, 11:22 AM Aug 2017

Uganda police: Arrests over ritual serial killings of women

Uganda police say they have arrested a number of suspects over a recent spate of killings of women near the capital, Kampala.

The Inspector General of Police, Kale Kayihura, said that a suspect had confessed to killing eight women on the orders of businessmen.

The murders were for ritual sacrifices, Gen Kayihura told residents of Nansana municipality.

Local media say 17 women have been killed in a gruesome manner since May.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-41010988
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