Dar es Salaam (AFP) – A six-year-old albino boy has had his right hand hacked off in the latest of a string of attacks in Tanzania against the minority, police said Sunday.
The boy, Baraka Cosmas, was sleeping at home with his mother in the village of Kipenda, in Tanzania’s south-western Rukwa region, when a gang of assailants stormed in late Saturday, regional police commander Jacob Mruanda said.
“The gangsters got hold of the victim’s mother, Prisca Shaaban, and beat her severely after she refused to hand over the boy,” Mruanda said.