Two women were on Saturday subjected to agonising deaths as they were said to have been beaten to death during a downpour.
Their crimes: They were alleged to be witches.
According to ‘The Punch’, the victims, who were said to be widows, were lynched in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State.
They were identified as Mrs Martina Osom and Mrs Rose Akon, were on Saturday, August 27, allegedly tortured to death by youths.
It was gathered that the incident happened in Ebbaken community in Boje, Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State.
While the plice were said to have yet to make a statement on the incident, the paper quotes a son-in-law to one of the widows as saying: “The youths accused her of initiating a member of the community into witchcraft and she denied the allegation but they went ahead and inflicted her with severe beating, ordering her to confess that she is a witch but her passionate appeal to them that she was innocent fell on deaf ears.”
He said the other woman, Mrs Rose Akon, was also dragged to join his mother-in-law and tortured to compel her to confess to allegations that she is a witch.
“They were both tied with strong ropes and beaten in the rain all through the day until they died,” the eyewitness said, adding “that was what happened in this civilised era in this community”.
