From Reuters Africa, Dar es Salaam
By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A man has been sentenced death by hanging for killing a five-year-old albino girl in Tanzania by hacking off her legs with a machete and then drinking her blood, media reported on Wednesday.
The High Court in the northern town of Mwanza on Tuesday convicted 50-year-old Kazimiri Mashauri after hearing he disappeared with the severed limbs and left her to die.
The girl's killing was one of a spate of attacks on the country's estimated 200,000 albinos in the past years, mostly in the remote northwest of the country near Lake Victoria, where superstition runs deep.
Albino hunters kill their victims and harvest their blood and body parts such as hair, genitals and limbs for potions.
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