Villagers drag middle-aged women from their huts and beat them to death around midnight in eastern Jharkhand state.

• Villagers drag middle-aged women from their huts and beat them to death around midnight in eastern Jharkhand state.

• Villagers in a rural part of eastern India have killed five women whom they accused of practising witchcraft, police have said.

• "A group (of villagers) dragged the women out and beat them to death with sticks, accusing them of practising witchcraft," Ranchi deputy police chief Arun Kumar Singh told AFP news agency by phone.

• Allegation was leveled against a woman that she killed the boy through witchcraft,"Singh said.

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