This couple’s story is very tragic and grisly. Apparently, a couple in India built a homemade guillotine and beheaded themselves.
Why, you might ask?
Well, nobody’s 100 percent sure, but they think it was a “religious” sacrifice…
The New York Post reported that 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. 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.
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.
In the suicide note, the couple asked that their elderly parents and children are taken care of.
The duo were Hindus who worshiped Shiva. They weren’t facing any financial or criminal issues that would have prompted something like this.
How absolutely horrific and I can’t imagine how devastating it was for these two young kids to find their parents that way.
