Daily Sun (July 8 2013) - MAKAMOHELO   doesn't believe in evil curses. But what she found in the canvas bag in the manhole of a sewer in her yard made her scream with terror . . .

SHE BELIEVES SHE NOW KNOWS WHY HER TWIN BABIES WOULD NEVER STOP CRYING! Makamohelo took the canvas bag out of the manhole. Inside the bag was a belt and human bones! Makamohelo Dala (28) has been living in the yard of the Deelkop farm, outside Brandfort in the Free State, for two years.

She couldn't understand why her babies have been behaving strangely for the last nine months.

"They would scream all day long as if they were in pain," she said. "But when I took them to the clinic they were fine." But only until she came home. "Then the screaming would start again," she said.

"If I took them to my mother's house they would also be okay - but at my own house they would start screaming again."

On Thursday, a truck delivering feed drove over the manhole cover in front of her house and broke the lid. After the truck had been moved, Makamohelo looked inside the manhole - and made her gruesome discovery. "I wanted to check what was inside there," she told Daily Sun.

"When I saw bones and a belt and a jacket I started to scream. The driver and I called the cops." On Friday, the cops investigated and found a human skull.

The shocked mother believes these bones could be what caused her twins to have sleepless nights. Cops took the bones for a post mortem. "I don't believe in evil spirits but I was thinking I should talk to sangomas to find out what is going on," she said. "I am very relieved that the mystery of my crying twins has been solved."

Police spokesman Sergeant Ian Gaobepe said after the human bones were found on Thursday they investigated the sewer because they expected to find other bones.

"We found the skull on Friday. The bones have been sent for post mortem and our investigation will continue," said Gaobepe.

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