The following was taken from Compass Direct News http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php

 Believing that his brother’s Christian faith was black magic that resulted in the death of his teenage daughter, a tribal villager in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh state on April 3 killed Thakur Sing Bhil with an arrow shot to the chest, relatives said. Bhil, also known as Thakur Baba, was a Christian leader from Gatiya Dev village who had faced opposition from relatives after converting to Christianity. He was estimated to be 55 years old. Relatives said his brother Mangar Singh, 45, entered his house in a drunken rage at noon and shot an arrow into this chest from close range. “My husband’s younger brother, Mangar Singh, had a 17-year-old daughter who died about three months ago because of ill health, and he blamed us for he thought that the conversion of my husband and his praying were responsible for his daughter’s death,” Bhil’s wife Inda Pasaha Bhil told Compass. “He somehow misunderstood our belief and prayers to be black magic of some kind, and since he was always opposed to our embrace of Christianity, it further infuriated him.” Relatives said police had arrested Singh, but because of poor communications infrastructure Compass was not immediately able to obtain a police account of the incident.

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