nnFive members of an Oraon tribal family in Tetgama village, Bihar, were brutally lynched and burned alive by a mob on July 6 over witchcraft accusations. The attackers blamed 71-year-old Kato Oraon and her family for a villager’s child’s death. Survivors describe how the mob dragged victims to a pond, assaulted them, doused them in petrol, and set them on fire. Police have arrested four people including a village exorcist who declared the victims ‘witches’, while the main suspect remains at large. This horrific case highlights persistent witchcraft-related violence in India’s tribal communities, with over 2,500 similar killings recorded since 2000.