Mon Nov 16, 3:04 pm ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected
of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the
corpse to a local kebab house.
Suspicions were raised when dismembered parts of a human body were found near a
bus stop in the outskirts of the Russian city of Perm, 1,150 km (720 miles)
east of Moscow.
Three homeless men with previous criminal records have been arrested on
suspicion of setting upon a foe with knives and a hammer before chopping up his
corpse to eat, local investigators said in a statement on their
www.susk.perm.ru Web site.
"After carrying out the crime, the corpse was divided up: part was eaten and
part was also sold to a kiosk selling kebabs and pies," the
Prosecutor-General's main investigative unit for the Perm region said in a
statement issued Friday.
It was not immediately clear from the statement if any of the corpse had been
sold to customers.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; editing by Dmitry Sergeyev)