Danielle M. George - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (AHN)- Tanzanian Police said they arrested Martin Kalunga, 25, and his associate Nico Benson, 31, in Lilwa village in southern Tanzania Tuesday after neighbors overheard Benson accusing Kalunga of plotting with their buyer to skin him.

"The two were arrested after they had a loud quarrel, because Benson suspected Martin of colluding with their buyer to skin him," Suleiman Kova, police commander for the southern Mbeya region, told Reuters.

The two men have been accused of killing a 9-year-old boy and selling his skin for 20,000 shillings ($18) to make sorcerers' get-rich-quick charms.

"During interrogation, Martin confessed that they were both skinners and that they had skinned a boy in Mbozi six months ago.

They then threw his body into the river Jianga," Kova said. Kova said police expected to charge the pair once they had completed investigations into the identity of the victim, whose remains have not been found.

Human skins are used by witch doctors to make charms or potions designed to make their users rich, especially in southern Tanzania, renowned as a center for traditional sorcery.