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Sorcerer arrested in Madina
Ramzi Abdul Kareem MADINA Published in The Saudi Gazette on 24 - 09 - 2008


The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice staff on Sunday arrested an alleged sorcerer in his residence in Al-Bahr District. The 50-year-old South Asian national, was rounded up for claiming to treat people with herbs and verses from the Holy Qur'an. The strange attitude of the man had aroused the suspicion of a citizen who reported him to the Commission. – Okaz __

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