A BBC report:
More than 500 people have been killed in Assam - and half as many in neighbouring West Bengal - in the past few years because their neighbours thought they were witches.
A study on these killings by a Bengal police officer, Asit Baran Choudhury, suggests that most of those accused of practising witchcraft and then killed are "isolated families" with some landed property.
He says most of those killed are widows.
"Powerful people in the community target them to acquire the land," says the study.
Another instance of greed exploiting ignorance.
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Now some estimates suggest the death toll from Sidr may reach 10,000.
Bird flu is all over the Indian state of West Bengal and the country that borders it on the east, Bangladesh. The Ganges River flows through West Bengal, dividing in two, with one branch headed into Bangladesh.
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
The Eye of Sidr has crossed the coast as expected.
BBC World News web site has yet to mention the event. I guess the Brits are really pissed off about the whole post-colonial thing.
CNN has this: