The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Police in a Catholic village in northern Bangladesh have detained an indigenous woman for biting a girl and drinking her blood.

Tumpi Mij, the indigenous woman, was caught attacking the 10-year-old victim,Swarna Tirkir, during a Christian ceremony marking Easter Sunday on March 23 in the village of kalikhetro, under the district of Thakurgoan

The head of the Catholic church in Thakurgaon told the newspaper that Mij was declared a witch.

Father Anthony Sen said local indigenous people had embraced Christianity but many converts still practised witchcraft as part of the indigenous culture.

Tumpi Mij said she was assigned to do the task by her brother Francis who was also accused of drinking human blood as part of practicing witchcraft, the local people told the newspaper.