Aizawl, Mar 29 : Doctors who conducted verification of the mysterious deaths of six people in Thanzamasora hamlet in south Mizoram's Lunglei district said they died of cerebral malaria even as animistic priests of the hamlet, locally known as bawlpu claimed that they died due to a curse of another bawlpu.
Lunglei district deputy commissioner Maragaret Zohmingthangi said doctors sent from the Lunglei Civil Hospital suspected the cause of death of those villagers to be cerebral malaria and distributed malaria drugs free of cost to villagers in the area.
A person, taken ill with similar symptoms, like those who dies was treated successfully at Chawngte town when he was administered with medicines used to treat malaria.
Six people died in Thanzamasora during the past fortnight and their bodies had allegedly turned blue-black after the death which caused panic among superstitious villagers.
The village priest claimed that they were cursed with black magic by a witch from another village and he was incapable of lifting the strong spell'.
Another bawlpu from a nearby Chawngte town promised to visit the village on March 29 to remove the spell, Zohmingthangi said, adding that the villagers were animists and extremely superstitious.
Many Chakma and Bru communities in Lunglei and Lawngtlai district in south Mizoram still follow primitive religion and believe in evil spirits where native priests still perform animistic rituals to pacify such evil spirits'.
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