1.   But the dazed looks and bloodied bandages of the hundreds of men still wandering through the town made clear the ritual still had its adherents.

2.   Many of them wore bloodied bandages wrapped around their heads.

3.   Further down the road, where the victims received immediate medical treatment before being rushed to hospital, bloodied bandages and compresses were strewn.

4.   Seconds later one man swaggered out of the emergency ward, his right hand wrapped in a bloodied bandage.