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LONDON — An increase in the number of attacks on people with albinism in Malawi since late 2014 by people seeking their body parts for witchcraft prompted Amnesty International to call Tuesday for authorities to do more to punish those responsible.The human rights group said April was the bloodiest month for attacks on albinos in the southern African nation, with four people murdered including a child under 2. The child’s father and four others have been arrested.In the past 19 months, authorities in Malawi have recorded the murders of 18 albinos and abduction of five others, although Amnesty fears the real number is likely to be higher as many attacks in secretive rituals in rural areas are never reported.
