Two Vanuatu police inspectors have intervened to stop village chiefs in East Efate from drowning a man they had claimed was practising witchcraft.
A number of people from Matarisu and Ekipe Villages have died after complaining of stomach aches and diarrhoea and the man was blamed for their deaths.
The chiefs planned to hang a rock around the man's neck and drown him but senior inspectors Jackson Noal and John Tete stepped in.
They say they warned the chiefs that taking another man's life is against the law and a person can go to prison for it.
