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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (2606)	9/5/2002 5:11:50 PM
From: Lost1	Respond to of 3287

Woman Finds Husband's Head on Beach Thu Sep 5,10:02 AM ET HONIARA (Reuters) - A woman searching for her missing husband found his severed head on a beach in the strife-torn Solomon Islands, police said on Thursday. Police said it appeared the man, who disappeared on Wednesday, had been beheaded, but they could not say whether it was linked to fighting between rival ethnic militia which has lefts hundreds dead in the past two years. "Details of the incident are sketchy but reports we have received is that the man, a Seventh Day Adventist deacon from Veramogho Village in the Weathercoast area had gone to a nearby village," police spokesman Charles Lemoa told Reuters. "But when he failed to return, his wife went to search for him but only found his head which has been cut off and left without the rest of the body on the beach. "At this stage the motive for this cruel killing is not known but we are investigating it." Shootings and robberies are commonplace in the troubled South Pacific nation, with armed ethnic militiamen operating with virtual immunity. Police are outgunned and unable to investigate killings in areas controlled by local warlords. Fighting between militias over land and jobs in the capital Honiara flared in June 2000. The enmity goes back to World War II, when many people from Malaita island moved to Guadalcanal, the Solomons' main island, angering another ethnic group. The fighting has crippled the Solomons' economy, which is now being propped up by aid, and left hundreds dead.