And finally…grizzly end for golden domes

The recent killing of five men for their body parts has given rise to the concerns that people are hoping to cash-in by slaying the folically-challenged and taking their body parts to witch doctors.

Three men have been killed in the past week alone.

A regional security spokesman, Miguel Caetano, told AFP that one of the victims had his head cut off and his organs removed.

The organs were to be used in rituals to advance the wealth of clients in Tanzania and Malawi, Mr Caetano said, citing the suspects.

“The belief is that the head of a bald man contains gold,” said Afonso Dias, a police commander in Mozambique’s central Zambezia province.

“Their motive comes from superstition and culture - the local community thinks bald individuals are rich,” Commander Dias is reported as having told a press conference in Maputo.

Two suspects have been arrested in the central district of Milange, where the killings occurred.

Albino people have also been killed in the region for ritual purposes.

According to the BBC, police think the notion of a bald head containing gold is a ruse by witchdoctors to get clients to take a person’s head to them.

The suspects are two young Mozambicans aged around 20, the AFP news agency reports.