Couple 'behead themselves with homemade guillotine' in India

Couple uses guillotine to behead themselves in sacrificial fire ritual

A man and wife from India used a guillotine-like mechanism to decapitate themselves as part of a ritualistic sacrifice, according to Yahoo News.A guillotine is a mechanism historically used for beheadings, using a blade plummeting down into a fixture where the victim's head and neck are placed.Police said that Hemubhai Makwana and his wife Hansaben died by decapitation by a homemade, bladed mechanism inside their hut. The pair is said to have pr…

Couple beheads themselves with a “homemade guillotine in a ritual of sacrifice” in India

The couple designed the “guillotine-type” device used in their beheading in such a way that their heads would roll towards “an altar of fire”

Couple Allegedly Built Guillotine, Decapitated Themselves

A couple in India built a guillotine and decapitated themselves with it over the weekend.

Couple 'behead themselves with homemade guillotine' in India

Police say the couple, who had been worshipping the destruction god Shiva, used a havan kund in their apparent suicide, which is a ritual fire pit where people make offerings to gods in an effort to please them.

A married couple beheaded with homemade guillotine in India

Their heads fell into a so-called fire pit.

Couple 'decapitate themselves during sacrificial ritual' in India

Hansaben and Hemubhai Makwana committed suicide at their farm A married couple decapitated themselves using a home-crafted guillotine, it has been reported. Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his wife Hansaben, 35, ‘severed’ their heads as part of a sacrificial ritual in India. Local media said the device was set up so that their heads would roll into an altar in their farm in Vinchhiya, Gujarat. Their bodies were found by their son, aged 13, and daughte…