The police command in the Savanna Region on Sunday, 30 August 2020, arrested five persons in connection with the brutality meted out to a 60-year-old woman called Meri Ibrahim, who was accused of witchcraft at Sumpini.

The suspects are Zakaria Abdul Karim, 30 years; Shaibu Iddrisu, 35 years; Atta Alhassan, 57 years; Salugu Isahaku alias Orulanaa aged 45 years; and Haruna Jebuni, 58 years.

Haruna Jebuni is the chief of the village.

The accused, allegedly attacked the victim in her house with cutlasses and sticks on suspicion of her being a witch.

The victim, according to the police, has been assisted to seek health care while the suspects are in custody, awaiting arraignment for court.

The police has, thus, cautioned that any person(s) who takes the law into their hands would be arrested and dealt with according to law.

This incident comes after a similar one in late July this year, when an old woman believed to be in her 90s, Akua Denteh, was lynched at Kafaba, a village nestled within the Savanna Region, also for allegedly being a witch.

She was accused of witchcraft by a seer, who had been invited by the villagers to help them drive away their misfortunes.

Scores of the locals watched aloof as two women flogged and bludgeoned the helpless grandmother despite her pleas of innocence.

The perpetrators are before the court.