CUBA NEWS
March 10, 2003

FROM CUBA
Hair snipped from the heads of unsuspecting women

HAVANA, Cuba, March 9 (Richard Roselló / www.cubanet.org) - Reports are increasing of hair being cut from women's heads to supply a clandestine market in human hair.

One of the latest victims didn't realize her hair had been cut while traveling on a crowded bus until she got home where her mother asked what she had done to her hair.

Women with long hair are being advised to wear it in styles not readily accessible to scissors or to cover it.

Rumors circulating in Havana tell of a student whose throat was cut before her hair was removed.

The hair is said to be sold for used to make wigs and hair pieces.


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