In what is suspected to be a case of human sacrifice, a 55-year-old woman, identified as Sarojamma, attacked her 25-year-old daughter, Rekha, with a machete inside a temple in northeastern Bengaluru on Wednesday.

According to news agency PTI, the incident happened after morning prayers at the Harihareshwara Temple in Agrahara Layout, off Thanisandra Main Road.

The victim suffered deep neck injuries in the incident.

The police said the two women reached the temple around 4.30 am on Wednesday, offered prayers for some time, and then sat down. It was then that the mother attacked her daughter with the machete.

Her screams alerted passersby, who pulled the mother away before calling the police.

"There has been an incident where a woman attacked her daughter with a machete and injured her

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