11.   Ritual killings have also occurred in Nigeria, where some people believe human body parts used in traditional medicines can impart superhuman strength and other magical powers.

12.   The miners allegedly performed the ritual killing in hopes of striking it rich at a mine and gave the medicine man a car as payment.

13.   The ritual killings by temple priests took place an hour after the monarch and his wife had left, a temple official said.

14.   Two women whose eyes were gouged out may have been the latest victims in a series of ritual killings, according to news reports.

15.   He added that the fingers, brain and skull of the victims of ritual killings are used in potions and medicines for those who want to awaken supernatural forces.

16.   Angry youths burned down a police station in protest over ritual killings in the northern Nigerian state of Jigawa, a local radio reported Monday.

17.   Britain rigorously enforces the Europe-wide standards and licences only established Muslim and Jewish abattoirs to carry out ritual killings, the paper noted.

18.   Cases of ritual killings are rampant in Nigeria.

19.   Ritual killings of men and women accused of extramarital sex are on the rise in some rural areas of Pakistan, human rights activists say.