Kepari Leniata, 20, was thrown screaming onto a pyre of tires and burned alive after being accused of killing a neighbor's son with sorcery.
After Leniata's six-year-old neighbor fell sick on Tuesday morning, he was taken to Mt Hagen hospital where he died a few hours later. Relatives of the boy believed witchcraft was involved and went to two women who admitted they practiced sorcery, but they told villagers that Kepari Leniata was the person responsible. The boy's family then dragged her from her home on Wednesday morning.