The child had been washing clothes and bathing at a river with friends and was returning home when she was grabbed by a man wearing a balaclava.

As her friends looked on, the man shot her in the back before dragging her away. Her headless body was found upriver a short time later.

The murder is the latest in a series of albino killings in Sub-Saharan Africa, where sufferers of the rare skin pigmentation condition are concentrated.

Earlier this year, another 11-year-old albino child was killed close to the same spot in Swaziland and her hand was removed.

Police believe both children may have been targeted because of a belief by witch doctors that the blood and body parts of albinos - who lack pigment in their eyes, hair and skin - can bring good luck and fortune when used in potions.

chairman bill wrote:If albino Africans had oil, the West would do something. As it is, hand-wringing is as good as it'll get

Ubjon wrote:

chairman bill wrote:If albino Africans had oil, the West would do something. As it is, hand-wringing is as good as it'll get

Sierra Leone has diamonds and its still a shit-hole.

natselrox wrote:

Ubjon wrote:

chairman bill wrote:If albino Africans had oil, the West would do something. As it is, hand-wringing is as good as it'll get

Sierra Leone has diamonds and its still a shit-hole.

Actually, thank fuck that Albino Africans don't have oil. Or else the West would've done the same, only in the name of Freedom and JusticeTM.

natselrox wrote:

Ubjon wrote:

chairman bill wrote:If albino Africans had oil, the West would do something. As it is, hand-wringing is as good as it'll get

Sierra Leone has diamonds and its still a shit-hole.

Actually, thank fuck that Albino Africans don't have oil. Or else the West would've done the same, only in the name of Freedom and JusticeTM.