Man sentenced to death for murdering albino girl
Kazimiri Mashauri, 50, was found guilty at on Tuesday at the High Court in the northern town of Mwanza after it heard he disappeared with the severed limbs and left the girl to die.
The murder was one of a spate of attacks on the country's estimated 200,000 albinos in the past years, mostly in the remote north-west of the country near Lake Victoria, where superstition runs deep. Albino hunters kill their victims and harvest their blood and body parts for potions.
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Al Shaymaa Kwegyir, Tanzania's first albino member of parliament, welcomed the conviction and praised the crackdown on the killings.