Family of 5 beheaded for "witchcraft"

In a modern day revisital to the Salem Witch Trials, 5 people from a family were beheaded in Assam in eastern India.

Copycat killings??

The tea plantation worker and his four children had been blamed for causing a disease which killed two other workers and made many unwell in Assam state.

About 200 villagers tried and sentenced the family in an unofficial court, then publicly beheaded them with machetes.

They then marched to a police station with the heads, chanting slogans denouncing witchcraft and black magic.

So his only known crime was that he could not cure those people. That's just sad and plain brutal.