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[nickel]

Suspected penis snatcher beaten to death

BANJUL (Reuters) - A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery has been beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia, police say.

A police spokesman told Reuters on Thursday that Baba Jallow was lynched by about 10 people in the town of Serekunda, some nine miles from the capital Banjul.

Reports of penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, with purported victims claiming that alleged sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear in order to extort cash in the promise of a cure.

The police spokesman said many men in Serekunda were now afraid to shake hands, and he urged people not to believe reports of "vanishing" genitals. Belief in sorcery is widespread in West Africa.

Seven alleged penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs in Ghana in 1997.

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[Joshua]

You can bet that if someone shrank my jimmy, I'd beat him to death too!

[Ladogaboy]

I wonder if anyone goes around collecting all the shrunken heads.

[RoniMan]

so does this mean there's no cold water in Gambia?

[cheapchinese]

i would kill any man that wants to snatch mine too,
i remember watching a rerun of opera a couple of days ago, some old dude like 60 some got his penis cut off by the doctor... he was mad like hell, and suing the hospital