Indians Execute ‘Bad’ Medicine Man

Members of an Indian tribe in Ecuador’s Amazon jungle have executed a medicine man for practicing “bad medicine,” a tribal leader said Sunday.

It was the tribe’s third execution of a medicine man in less than two months.

A council of native healers of the Achuar tribe sentenced Hernan Sundy to death after finding him guilty of killing five people who died after receiving his treatments, tribal leader Santiago Kawarin told a local radio station.

Members of the victims’ families shot Sundy on Thursday in the Pastaza province, 113 miles southeast of the capital, Quito.

“He was warned not to cause more misfortunes, but he did not pay attention to the warning, so the community’s healers met and sentenced him to death,” Kawarin said.