"Arrests Made in Connection to Human Sacrifice at Indian Temple"
Five people have been arrested in connection with the 2019 murder of a woman at the Kamakhya Temple in India's Assam state, which police say was a case of ritual human sacrifice. The victim, Shanti Shaw, was beheaded with a machete as an "offering" to the temple goddess. Police had been investigating since then but reported no significant evidence until a special team of the Assam Police managed to identify the alleged killers using technical data linking them to the victim. Human sacrifices are not unknown in India, where official data show there were more than 100 reported cases between 2014 and 2021.