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| Mozambique police warn bald men after ritual attack | Mozambique police warn bald men after ritual attack |
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| Bald men in Mozambique could be the targets of ritual attacks, police have warned, following the recent killing of three bald men for their body parts. | Bald men in Mozambique could be the targets of ritual attacks, police have warned, following the recent killing of three bald men for their body parts. |
| Two suspects have been arrested in the central district of Milange, where the killings occurred. | Two suspects have been arrested in the central district of Milange, where the killings occurred. |
| "The belief is that the head of a bald man contains gold," said Afonso Dias, a police commander in Mozambique's central Zambezia province. | "The belief is that the head of a bald man contains gold," said Afonso Dias, a police commander in Mozambique's central Zambezia province. |
| Albino people have also been killed in the region for ritual purposes. | Albino people have also been killed in the region for ritual purposes. |
| The suspects are two young Mozambicans aged around 20, the AFP news agency reports. | |
| "Their motive comes from superstition and culture - the local community thinks bald individuals are rich," Commander Dias is reported as having told a press conference in the capital Maputo. | |
| A regional security spokesman, Miguel Caetano, told AFP that one of the victims had had his head cut off and his organs removed. | |
| The organs were to be used by medicine men in rituals to advance the wealth of clients in Tanzania and Malawi, Mr Caetano said, citing the suspects. |