Three Satanists killed a young woman in a human sacrifice to appease the devil so he would stop earthquakes plaguing Turkey since 17 August, newspapers reported today.

Omer Celik, 23, Engin Aslan, 18, and Aslan's girlfriend, Zinnur Dincer, 19, met 21-year-old Sehriban Coskunfirat in a bar late on 13 September, took her for a drink at the Ortakoy cemetery, in Istanbul's European sector.

(The woman) was stabbed and killed by hammer blows to the head ... while (one of them) had sexual relations with the corpse "in accordance with Satanist ritual".