8 arrested over lynching of four J'khand tribals

Eight people were arrested on Monday for allegedly lynching four tribals, including two women, in Jharkhand's Gumla district on the suspicion that they were practising witchcraft, police said.

The arrested were among a group of people who had allegedly dragged the four elderly persons out of their homes at Nagar-Siskari village and beat them to death with sticks in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, according to a statement.

Blood-soaked sticks suspected to have been used in the crime were also seized, it said.