Last month, the vice-president of the Democratic Green Party was found almost decapitated from machete wounds.

Bodies emptying from machete wounds or inflating from snakebite were admitted through it.

He had machete wounds to his neck, suffered as he tried to escape the tribal militiamen who swooped down on his village recently.

There were several attacks within the camp itself Friday night, and the medical officers said they treated scores of Hutu for machete wounds.

She has a deep gash on her right cheek, and several more machete wounds on her neck and head.

Their faces were pasty, and one of them bore a gruesome open slash along the side of his face, a machete wound, perhaps.

Three indigenous people are detained and 7 military personnel receive machete wounds.

There was only one adult in the group, and several of the children had fresh machete wounds on their heads and necks, the official said.

Belgian Red Cross doctors in the hospital in Kayanza say they have treated mostly machete wounds to the neck, head and hands.

In Somalia another pirate was taken into custody by police after local fishermen found him on a shore, with machete wounds on his body.