Tumour is 'devil's child'

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New Delhi - An Indian girl was dragged to a witch doctor and ostracised for carrying the "devil's child".

But it turned out to be a 15kg tumour not a foetus, it was reported on Friday.

Chhabi Shabar, 17, was ostracised from her village in eastern India and taken to a witch doctor when her stomach started swelling up a few months ago, the Telegraph newspaper reported.

Residents of Dhamaitikri village in West Bengal state declared the unmarried girl must be pregnant. Her poor farmer father took her to a local doctor who also concluded Chhabi was expecting because her abdomen kept growing and she suffered from nausea and breathing problems.

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