Senegal: a talibe beaten to death by his Qur’anic master

The people of Mpal in the Saint-Louis region woke up in dismay yesterday.

A talibe child was beaten to death by his teacher who taught him the Koran.

According to Ndarinfo, who gives the information, the lifeless body of the child was handed over to his family, following an autopsy order ordered by the prosecutor.

In the light of the foregoing, the child would be fatally beaten by the Qur’anic master. The same source reports that the author was picked by the elements of the policemen.

(A talibe is a boy, usually from Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali or Mauritania, who studies the Quran at a daara)