DHAKA -- A Hindu woman in Bangladesh hacked her five-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter to death to please the goddess Kali, police said on Tuesday. The woman, 35, killed the children on Saturday night after she was asked by Kali in a dream to make the "sacrifices", police said. "The woman confessed that she had killed her two children to satisfy the goddess Kali in order to achieve divine blessings," said additional superintendent of police Mahbub Hossain Aurangjeb in the Sirajganj district, about 142km (88 miles) north of the capital Dhaka. Hindus worship many deities, of which the Kali is considered to be one of the most powerful.
They make up about eight percent of the 128 million people in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh.
(Reuter)