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Ryan Fahey

Couple decapitate each other with guillotine made at home in ritual sacrifice

A couple took their own lives by decapitating themselves with a makeshift guillotine, it has emerged.

Police said the bizarre contraption was created so the husband and wife could offer their heads as a sacrifice.

Farmer Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and 35-year-old wife Hansaben "severed" their heads from their bodies with a "guillotine-like mechanism" in Vinchiya, a village in Rajkot, India.

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