The mother-of-two had been severely mutilated.
Two witch doctors have been arrested after an albino woman was found murdered and mutilated in Tanzania.
Police in the Simiyu region said the 40-year-old victim was murdered overnight earlier this month and the attackers had hacked off her left leg, the index and middle fingers of her left hand and part of her left thumb.
Photographs of the murder scene outside her home were too graphic to publish.
People with albinism are often subjected to violent attacks in the country, where they are known as the “zeru zeru” or ghosts.
The condition is heavily stigmatised and families who see it as a curse have known to kick relatives out of their homes.
But sufferers are also a target for traditional healers, who harvest body parts to make potions for wealth, success and even election victories.
Albinism campaign group Under the Same Sun said the latest victim was the 73rd person with albinism to be killed in Tanzania since the year 2000 and 67 others have suffered violent attacks during the same period.
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