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Six-year-old Albino's hand hacked off so it could be sold to witch doctors

Tanzania:    A six-year-old whose hand was hacked off by men who broke into his home has become the latest albino in Tanzania to be attacked because their body parts are worth thousands of pounds.

Baraka Cosmas, 6, was sleeping at home with his mum in the village of Kipenda in the south-western Rukwa region when a gang of hired hitman rushed in late on Saturday.

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