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Accused of knifing open womb to steal a baby

A South African woman appears in court today for murder over allegations that she sliced open a pregnant woman, kidnapped the baby and left the mother for dead, police said. The 29-year-old woman from Randfontein, west of Johannesburg, had pretended to be pregnant before she attacked the expectant mother and ripped her baby out of her womb a week a...