Beyond terror

Indonesia | Shocked Sulawesi struggles to comprehend the beheading of three schoolgirls in a region grown used to Muslim attacks | Priya Abraham

CAUTION: This story includes disturbing, graphic content.

The four Indonesian teenagers were simply on their way to school Oct. 29 after attending a Girl Guide camp, still wearing the club's brown uniforms. When they crossed a cocoa plantation in Poso, Central Sulawesi, six men pounced, covered from head to foot in black ninja-like tunics. Wielding machetes, they hacked the heads off three of the girls and carved into the face of the fourth. She struggled away and fled to the next village.

Her panicked arrival alerted locals something horrible had happened. By 7:30 a.m., villagers found the decapitated bodies of her friends on the plantation.

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