About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/f0f65cb66e711847fbc6c3b82805822cc1e1893f4e115bcb7288fe26     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
schema:articleBody
  • Sri Lankan police on Sunday arrested a self-proclaimed exorcist after a nine-year-old girl she had beaten as part of a ritual died. The unidentified woman allegedly struck the girl repeatedly with a cane, claiming it was a way to drive out a demon that had possessed the child, said police spokesman Ajith Rohana. The girl's parents had taken her to the woman in the village of Meegahawatte, just outside the capital Colombo, where neighbours responded to the cries of the child but not in time to save her, Rohana added. "The child had collapsed after the severe beating she received. She was found dead on admission to hospital," he said. There have been a number of such alleged exorcism attempts in the area in recent years, police added, with some causing physical harm -- including death. Many in Sri Lanka seek help from witch doctors, self-proclaimed sorcerers and exorcists for help with various problems. Recently, health minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi publicly consumed a syrup made by a "god man" who had claimed it would give lifelong immunity from Covid-19. The minister ended up contracting the coronavirus and required intensive care treatment. aj/qan/oho
schema:headline
  • Sri Lanka police arrest 'exorcist' after child killed in ritual
schema:mentions
schema:author
schema:datePublished
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 2 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software