该国正努力应对日益增加的袭击事件，今年有创纪录的13人——主要是儿童——因身体部位被杀害，一些人认为这些部位能带来好运。
The country is struggling to address a rise in attacks, with a record 13 people – mostly children – killed this year for body parts, which some believe can bring good fortune Not long after midnight in late May this year, three men barged through the door of the small room where Nicole Soalala lived with her family on the outskirts of Toliara, a coastal city in the south of Madagascar.
今年5月底午夜刚过，三名男子闯入了妮可·索阿拉拉与家人居住的小房间，她家位于马达加斯加南部沿海城市托利亚拉的郊区。她的丈夫起身询问他们的目的，但他们用木棍和斧头袭击了他。
Her husband got up to ask what they wanted, but they attacked him with a piece of wood and an axe.
32岁的索阿拉拉抱起她最小的孩子兰德里西亚（一个18个月大的白化病女孩），把她背在背上，并用一块布裹住自己以保护她。
Soalala, 32, grabbed her youngest child, Landricia – an 18-month-old girl with albinism – and hoisted her on to her back, holding her there with a piece of fabric she started to wrap around herself.
她15岁的大女儿和另外两个孩子（分别为6岁和3岁）躲在了桌子下面。
Her eldest daughter, 15, hid under the table with her other two children, aged six and three.