Five held for ‘sacrifice murder’

Five people have been arrested and face charges of murdering a 10-year-old boy in south-west Nepal, police said yesterday, in an incident media reports said was a suspected case of human sacrifice. Police said Jivan Kohar’s throat had been slit. The Kathmandu Post said the father of a sick man had confessed to the killing “to chase away the evil spirits” from his ailing son after seeking advice from a village shaman.