Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his wife, Hansaben Makwana, 35, were found beheaded in the Indian state of Gujarat.
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.
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,Indian farmer Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his wife, Hansaben Makwana, 35, pictured, committed suicide by guillotining themselves.
Jadeja said investigators were taking statements from relatives and trying to determine whether the twin beadings were part of a black magic ritual.
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