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PICTURED: WOMAN EATEN BY 300 CANNIBAL NEIGHBOURS

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THIS is the woman cops say was murdered, cut up and then fed to 300 villagers by cannibal WITCH DOCTORS.

The fate of Zanele Hlatshwayo, 25, is unfolding as the men accused of killing her in Estcourt, in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa, go on trial.

Hlatshwayo’s mother, Philiswe, identified her daughter from bloodied clothing found on what was left of the body.

Hlatshwayo vanished on July 25 after heading for Pietermari­tzburg to visit her grandma and had stopped to see relatives at Estcourt 20 miles away.

She never arrived at her intended destinatio­n.

Cops said the alleged victim’s mother was not overly concerned, but that changed on Monday when Hlatshwayo’s cousin Nozipho Hlatshwayo heard that four men had been arrested in Estcourt for cannibalis­m.

They, along with a fifth man, have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder as part of an alleged cannibalis­m ring which could include untold victims.

Police investigat­ing the cannibal atrocity have found eight human ears in a cooking pot as it emerged villagers were coerced into eating flesh because it would make them bulletproo­f.

Five suspects have been arrested after one of the men walked into a police station with a piece of an arm and a leg saying he had lost the taste for human flesh.

Grim new details of the case have emerged as the spiritual healers’ homes VICTIM: Zanele Hlatshwayo were raided with officers discoverin­g a number of severed body parts and human remains stuffed inside suitcases.

The corpse parts were used in potions given to witch doctor’s customers, who were told eating humans would also set them free from poverty.

The five suspects first appeared in court last week.

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