Albino Girl has Hand Cut Off in North Zambia

Unknown criminals in Kitwe have chopped off and run away with the left hand of a 7-year-old albino girl. The Copperbelt Police Commissioner, Charity Katanga, confirmed the attack, and said the incident happened on Wednesday around midnight in Mutupa Farming area, Chantente Ward across Kafue River in Kitwe.

She explained that the unknown assailants used a machete to chop off the girl’s hand.

“Joseph Mulenga, 27, a peasant farmer, reported that his daughter aged 7, an albino, grade 1 pupil at Mutupa Community School had her left hand chopped off slightly above the elbow by unknown criminals who forced their way through the window into the bedroom where the victim was sleeping with the sister. 

“The assailants forcibly dragged the 7-year-old albino outside into the nearby bush,” Katanga said.

When the girl’s parents screamed for help as they saw their daughter being dragged away, the assailants chopped off her hand, and made away with it.

The victim was rushed to Riverside police station were the matter was reported and officers rushed her to Kitwe teaching hospital where she has been admitted.

She is currently waiting to undergo a surgery. 

Ms Katanga said an inquiry file has since been opened and a manhunt for the assailants launched.

This is the second attack on an albino this week, following the fatal stabbing of a 39-year-old man in his home in the eastern Nyimba district.