July 1, 2004

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  Siblings slaughter ‘possessed’ father

  RASHEED KIDWAI

  Bhopal, June 27: One man was drowned in the Sindh last week by his son for being afflicted with leprosy and, now, the slaughter of another in the state, allegedly by his two daughters, for being “possessed” has rocked the region.

  
  

  Yasmin, 22, and Taslima, 25, believed that “Iblis”, the great Satan, had possessed their father, said police.

  
  

  They locked their ailing father, Yunus Mian, in a room, bound him up with chains and slaughtered him. The siblings then danced around his corpse.

  
  

  Officials said the siblings’ claim of having drunk their father’s blood and eaten some of his organs would be confirmed during post-mortem.

  
  

  He had not been keeping well for some time and family members were of the opinion that he had been afflicted by some evil supernatural power — namely, Djinns.

  
  

  In keeping with this line of thinking, Yunus was being administered occult treatment during the course of which it was suspected that the two sisters had also got “possessed”. The family, however, felt that while Yunus was under the spell of “Satan”, the girls were under the spell of “good Djinns”.

  
  

   

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