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Updated Thursday, January 8, 2009 10:21 am TWN, AFP

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Woman burnt alive in PNG witchcraft case

PORT MORESBY -- A young woman was stripped naked and burnt alive at the stake in Papua New Guinea, possibly because she was accused of being a witch, newspapers reported Wednesday. The woman, believed to be between 16 and 20 years of age, was blindfolded, gagged and lashed to a pole on a pyre of tires and firewood on a garbage dump in Mount Hagen, a witness told the Post-Courier newspaper.

“The girl was stripped naked and could not shout for assistance or resist as she was tightly strapped and her mouth gagged,” said Jessie James, 21, who lives in a settlement near the town in PNG's volatile Highlands region. He said several men who had arrived with the woman in a truck then poured petrol over her and set the pyre ablaze.

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