Police in rural India are investigating the murder of five members of the same family who were accused by a mob of witchcraft ...

Purnia District Magistrate Anshul Kumar said a case has been registered against 23 accused. Main accused is already in police ...

A shocking incident in Bihar's Purnia district sees five family members killed in suspected witchcraft-related violence.

In Bihar's Purnia district, a tribal mob brutally murdered five members of a family, suspecting them of witchcraft. The ...

Purnia MP Pappu Yadav met the families of five people allegedly burned alive over black magic accusations. He claimed an ...

More than 1,500 people — the overwhelming majority of them women — were killed in India on suspicion of witchcraft between 2010 and 2021, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.

Despite campaigns against superstition, belief in witchcraft remains widespread in rural areas across India, especially in isolated tribal communities.

Patna: Taking strong note of the recent horrifying incident in Purnia district, where five members of a family were burnt alive over witchcraft accusa.

Five family members burnt alive in Bihar over witchcraft allegations, sparking outrage and arrests in Purnia district.

A teenager has bravely recorded the cruel murder of his closest family to police, but will it be the last such killing?

Five family members were brutally lynched and burnt by a mob over witchcraft allegations in Purnea district, Bihar. The horrific incident has sparked a major police investigation.