Police in Tanzania’s Tabora region are holding four nurses suspected to be part of an organ trafficking scheme. Tabora regional commissioner Batilda Buriani says the four were arrested after investigators found that the bodies of prematurely born twins were mutilated after they had died. He said the twins’ mother found their eyes gouged out and part of their skin peeled off from the forehead. Buriani says that the nurses have since been suspended and will face charges of organ harvesting. The organ harvesting has been linked to witchcraft, the commissioner said. The nurses are also accused of lying that the bodies were kept in the maternity ward when they were, in fact, found in the nurses’ room. According to the investigating committee, the twins died due to a lack of neonatal care services unavailable at the facility they were born.

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