According to a regional official, four nurses in Tanzania’s western Tabora region will be charged in court with harvesting the organs of baby twins.
The bodies of the prematurely born twins were mutilated after they died, according to a committee formed to investigate the incident.
The mother discovered her baby’s eyes gouged out and skin peeled off the forehead.
According to Tabora regional commissioner Batilda Buriani, the nurses who have been arrested have been suspended from their duties.
She claimed that organ harvesting was connected to witchcraft.
Ms Buriani added that the nurses misled the investigating committee by falsely claiming that the bodies were kept in the maternity ward when, in fact, they were discovered in the nurses’ room.
The nurses have yet to respond to the allegations.
According to the report, the twins died as a result of a lack of neonatal care services at the facility where they were born.
