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| Zulu was told that if he sacrificed some of his body parts he would become rich. |
According to media accounts, business associates and a witch doctor told the man that sacrificing some of his body parts would increase his wealth.
Times of Zambia reports that the victim, a man from Malawi who is in his early 20s, followed instructions to go out into the bush in a Zambian border town at about 4:00 am and take off all his clothes. In describing what happened next, he said that "a hyena came to me and started eating my toes and eventually my manhood was eaten."
He also said that "the witch doctor had not indicated the body parts that would be 'lost' and how, although he was told he would encounter a hyena… after the incident, he crawled to a nearby road where some police officers picked him and took him to the hospital.”
He was treated at the Zambian hospital and later transferred to another facility at the request of relatives.
The man lost his genitals and three toes in the gruesome incident, but apparently not his enthusiasm for wealth-building. "Even if I have lost some important parts of my body, I still want to get rich," he said.
Chipata General Hospital acting medical superintendent Humphrey Chanda described Mr Zulu's condition as stable.
"Yes, it is true that he lost his manhood and three toes after being bitten by a hyena, but his condition is stable," Dr Chanda said.