Shrinking feeling sparks killing

Dakar - Vigilante mobs convinced that foreign sorcerers can shrink a man's genitals with a mere handshake have killed eight people…

Dakar - Vigilante mobs convinced that foreign sorcerers can shrink a man's genitals with a mere handshake have killed eight people in Senegal in the past week.

Attackers killed five people at Ziguinghor in southern Senegal after a man accused one of them of making his penis shrink, newspapers reported today. At least three other people were killed in the West African nation's capital, Dakar.

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