A child with albinism, Baraka Cosmas,
6, has been attacked and his right palm severed by unknown assailants in Kipeta
Village, Sumbawanga District in a brutal incident that took place at around 2am
yesterday. Rukwa regional police commander Jacob Mwaruanda told reporters that
the attackers broke into the house where the boy was sleeping with his mother,
Ms Prisca Shaban, 26.
He said the thugs attacked the boy’s mother using machetes when
she fought them off as they attemped to seize him.
The RPC said that during the struggle, the assailants managed to
chop off the child’s right palm and disappeared with it.
“The brave mother was hit repeatedly and sustained
injuries as she refused to give up the child and instead continued to fight
back; they managed to severe the child’s right palm and ran away with it,” said
the RPC.
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