Couple beheaded themselves with homemade guillotine as a sacrifice — The guillotine was rigged in such a way that their severed heads rolled directly into a fire altar as a form of human sacrifice. (Read More Here).
Farmer Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his wife, Hansaben Makwana, 35, committed the sickening act sometime between Saturday and Sunday in the village of Vinchiya, located in the Rajkot district of the western state of Gujarat, local police said.
“The couple first prepared a fire altar before putting their heads under a guillotine-like mechanism held by a rope. As soon as they released the rope, an iron blade fell on them, severing their heads, which rolled into the fire,” said Vinchiya police sub-inspector Indrajitsinh Jadeja, according to Hindustan Times.
Fire is considered sacred in Hinduism and it plays a significant role in several worship rituals. The couple apparently designed the device used in their beheading in such a way that their heads would roll into the fire altar, completing their sacrificial ritual.
According to the authorities, they found a suicide note written in Gujarati stating that the couple had taken their own lives willingly, and that no one else was to blame for their deaths, reported the Times of India.
The incident took place sometime between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, when police were alerted.
Family members reportedly told police that the pair had offered prayers in the hut every day for the last year.
Ritual human sacrifices are not unknown in India, where official data show there were more than 100 reported cases between 2014 and 2021. But almost all known cases of human sacrifice involve people killing others to please gods, rather than themselves.
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