By MASATOMO NORIKYO/ Correspondent
June 27, 2020 at 07:00 JST
The dead wander for eternity in hell with their heads transformed into the heads of animals they killed while they were alive. This image appears at Wat Saen Suk temple in Thailand's central province of Chonburi. (Masatomo Norikyo)
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