Satanic ritual victim in coma

AN 18-YEAR-OLD South African woman is in a coma after being doused in petrol and burned by friends in a Johannesburg park, in what police suspect was a satanic ritual, local media said.

Kirsty Theologo suffered burns over three quarters of her body, damaging her lungs and throat, when she was set alight in a park in southern Johannesburg, her sister Samantha told The Star newspaper.

While she was burning, one boy cut her hand and held it over a Bible so that the blood could soak it, according to one of the girls who was in the group, the paper said.