Extraordinary
images: Three years ago uproar was caused after a video emerged on the
internet showing five people burned in the village of Nyamataro, Kisii,
in the east of Kenya, over witchcraft allegations
Growing desires for land along Kenya’s Indian Ocean coastline are allegedly causing a rise in "witch lynchings" by residents to intimidate their elderly relatives who own the title deeds of desirable areas.
Sadaka Muruu, 100, who owns 12 acres of sought-after land in coastal Kilifi county, claimed she was told by her grandchildren that they would burn her alive after investors asked about purchasing it.
The frightened grandmother was allegedly dragged naked from her home in January by relatives who had turned up without notice, and told neighbours they had caught her doing witchcraft.