Muti hack attack

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A 35-year-old man has escaped with minor injuries after three men and a woman tried to hack off his body parts for muti in Hamurage village, Limpopo police said on Tuesday.

Captain Mashudu Malelo said the man was hitchhiking from Hamurage village to Tshivilwi village when a white Toyota Corolla stopped.

He got inside the car, where the four occupants attacked him with pepper spray.

The man was dragged into the Tshivilwi bushes where his assailants deliberated on which body parts to cut off first.

One took out pliers to cut off the man's tongue but another wanted to start with the left hand first. The woman was busy throwing bones on ground while they attempted to cut their victim into pieces.

"The man somehow managed to kick one of them in the groin and escaped. He ran to the nearest hospital where he alerted the police."

He sustained minor injuries to his head and hands and was recovering in Tshilibizini Hospital.

No arrests have yet been made and police were investigating, Malelo said.