Police say that five family members accused of magic and murder brutally at the hands of mobs in India.

New Delhi The police arrested three people suspected of killing five members of a family accused of magic in the East Indian state. The police said the victims were hacked to death, then their bodies were burned by a group of dozens of residents in the village of Timta on Sunday evening.

The police, who regained the charred residues of the family on Monday evening, said three women are among the victims. The residents are said to be suspected of the family of causing a fatal local boy.

“We have arrested three defendants so far,” Bramud Kumar Mandal, Deputy Inspector General of Burnia, where the accident occurred to CBS News.

Mandal confirmed that the victims were accused of magic and identifying them as Babo Lal Ourun, 50, along with his 70 -year -old mother Devi, his wife and two adult children.

The 16 -year -old was the only survivor of the family. He told the police that a crowd of about 50 people stormed their house at about 10 pm on Sunday, accusing his mother in magic and then attacking the family with oral weapons, Hindustan times The newspaper quoted a police officer as saying.

The accident occurred about 10 days after the death of a child in the village due to illness. On Sunday night, the child’s brother suffered the disease, and the villagers suspected magic as the cause, which led to the attack on the Orown family, Ndtv I mentioned, quoting the police.

Bihar police formed a team dedicated to the investigation of murders.

Soyti Saherwat, Purina Supervisor, who chaired the investigation, told CBS News that her team would arrest everyone who suspects his involvement in the attack “as soon as possible.”

Sahrawat noted that many of the villagers were suspected of involved in the attack, and many residents did not help the attackers.

Cases of attacks on people accused of magic are not common in India and other countries of South Asia. Governments and activists have struggled to end the attacks, which have been based on myths for centuries.

Belief in magic is also common in some rural societies in West Africa and other places on the continent. Earlier this month, Six people accused of magic It was alive, stoned or hit to death by a militia in Burundi.