Man buries nephew alive in an act of witchcraft in Peruvian jungle
The 11-year-old Indigenous boy was rescued by a peasant patrol. His relative blamed him for his grandmother’s death and interred him next to her body
There were moans from beneath the ground. Rapid breathing that was becoming increasingly fainter. Gasps that begged for help. It was a January morning in the thick Peruvian jungle, in the Indigenous community of Chequitavo in the municipality of Oventeni in Ucayali, a region bordering Brazil. On the outskirts of the town, a man blinded by his grief and superstitions has just committed an atrocity.
