Couple Beheaded Themselves With Homemade Guillotine As Sacrifice

Couple Beheaded Themselves With Homemade Guillotine As Sacrifice In India

A husband and wife from India simultaneously decapitated themselves over the weekend using an improvised guillotine rigged in such a way that their severed heads rolled directly into a fire altar as a form of human sacrifice, officials said.

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

 

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“As soon as they released the rope, an iron blade fell on them, severing their heads, which rolled into the fire.”

The couple’s two children, ages 12 and 13, found their headless torsos when they returned home from visiting their uncle in a nearby village, where they had been sent by their parents the day before.

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.

“I think someone did this and made it look like they did it themselves,” someone commented. “They should have quit while they were ahead,” another person wrote.