A GHANAIAN man was shot dead by a fellow villager while testing a magic spell designed to make him bulletproof. Aleobiga Aberima, 23, and around 15 other men from Lambu village, northeast Ghana, had asked a witchdoctor to make them invincible to bullets. After smearing his body with a concoction of herbs every day for two weeks, Aberima volunteered to be shot to check the spell had worked. One of the others fetched a rifle and shot Aberima who died instantly. Angry Lambu residents seized the jujuman and beat him severely. – Reuters