KOTA KINABALU: A man claiming to be possessed by spirits killed his seven-year-old son by slitting his throat before drinking the boy’s blood as family members watched in horror in the east coast Lahad Datu district.
Lahad Datu police chief Supt Shamsuddin Mat said the boy, Haikal Salimar, was sleeping in the living room of the family house at Kampung Epil at about 9.45pm on Thursday when his father suddenly grabbed a knife from the kitchen and slit his throat.
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