Costa Rican police are investigating the killing in the southern indigenous territory of the Guaymí of a man who two murder suspects claim was a shaman who had “put a spell” on their relatives, the Judicial Investigation Police said.

The victim, Joaquín Bejarono, 24, was found with signs of having been clubbed to death on Sunday.

Police arrived Monday morning to the scene in the Alto Copey de Limón community of Coto Brus, reachable only on foot, and arrested two indigenous brothers, with the last name García, ages 24 and 32, who said they acted to “free the people” of the sorcerer's spell, the daily La Nación reported.

-Tico Times