Six-year-old Baraka Cosmas is attended to by his mother, Ms Prisca Shabani, at Mbeya Regional Hospital after unknown assailants chopped off the boy’s right hand in Sumbawanga last Sunday. PHOTO | FILE
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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, also noted concerns of similar attacks in neighbouring countries of Burundi and Malawi.