Click to play videoGulbarga: An incident of children being buried upto their neck in a pit of soil has come to light in Gulbarga district of Karnataka.
Some parents buried their children, many of them upto their necks, in a pit for the duration of the eclipse.
The burying act was a part of a ritual that they believe will heal their children from handicaps or disorders that afflict them.
The process started an hour before the start of the eclipse. It went on till eleven in the morning as the parents watched mutely even as their kids cried out.
More than sixty children were forced to go through the torture. Some of them were from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
This strange ritual has been held here over the past 5 yrs during every eclipse. The parents seemed oblivious of the fact that the children felt traumatised or that there was any danger of some insect bite while the child was buried up to the neck in soil. The fact that the act could also bring another untold disease through infection also missed the desperate parents.
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