Woman killed in `quake sacrifice'

Ankara - Three Satanists killed a young woman in a human sacrifice to appease the devil so he would stop the earthquakes that…

Ankara - Three Satanists killed a young woman in a human sacrifice to appease the devil so he would stop the earthquakes that have been shaking north-western Turkey, newspapers reported yesterday. They said Omer Celik (23) Engin Aslan (18) and Mr Aslan's girlfriend, Ms Zinnur Dincer (19) met Ms Sehriban Coskunfirat (21) in a bar late on September 13, then took her to have a drink at the Ortakoy cemetery, in the European sector of Istanbul.

Ms Coskunfirat was later stabbed and killed by hammer blows to the head, newspapers reported, while Celik had sexual relations with the corpse "in accordance with Satanist ritual".

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