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By Snejana Farberov

A husband and spouse from India concurrently decapitated themselves over the weekend utilizing an improvised guillotine rigged in such a method that their severed heads rolled straight into a hearth altar as a type of human sacrifice, officers stated.

Farmer Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his spouse, Hansaben Makwana, 35, dedicated the sickening act someday between Saturday and Sunday within the village of Vinchiya, situated within the Rajkot district of the western state of Gujarat, native police stated.

“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,” stated Vinchiya police sub-inspector Indrajitsinh Jadeja, according to Hindustan Times.

The couple’s two kids, ages 12 and 13, discovered their headless torsos once they returned residence from visiting their uncle in a close-by village, the place that they had been despatched by their mother and father the day earlier than.

According to the authorities, they discovered a suicide word written in Gujarati stating that the couple had taken their very own lives willingly, and that nobody else was responsible for his or her deaths, reported the Times of India.

In their parting word, the duo appealed to their relations to maintain their aged mother and father and their two orphaned kids.

Jadeja stated investigators have been taking statements from relations and attempting to find out whether or not the dual beheadings have been a part of a black magic ritual.

The couple had been worshiping the god Shiva — one of many foremost deities of Hinduism — at an improvised temple that they had arrange on their property each day for the previous yr.

Hansaben’s cousin Jayanti Jatapara stated the couple was not dealing with any monetary hardships or relationship issues earlier than their deaths.

The case was being investigated as an unintended demise and the victims’ our bodies have been despatched to a coroner’s workplace to endure autopsies.