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Brothers dug up more than 100 graves to eat corpses
15 Apr 2014 at 19:58hrs | Views
A convicted cannibal, Mohammad Arif, 35, has been rearrested in Pakistan after a three-year-old boy's head was discovered in the home he shares with his brother Mohammad Farman, 30.
The pair, from the small town of Darya Khan in the country's interior, had previously served two years in jail for cannibalism and were only released last year.
At the time, local police said the two men had dug up more than 100 corpses from the local graveyard and eaten them.
Mohammad Arif has now been rearrested as an investigation gets underway in to the grim discovery at his house.
His brother Mohammad Farman is still being hunted by police.
District police chief, Ameer Abdullah, said officers swooped after residents complained of a bad smell coming from the brothers' home.
'Residents informed police after a stench emanated from the house of the two brothers,' he said.
'We raided the house on Monday morning and found the head of a young boy,' a district police chief, Ameer Abdullah, told Reuters.
'We have arrested one of the brothers, Mohammad Arif, and are conducting raids for the arrest of the other brother.'
Police were searching nearby graveyards to see if they had been disturbed, he said.
The pair were initially jailed after police found that the corpse of a 24-year-old woman had disappeared from its grave in 2011.
Further investigations led officers to the brothers' house where they found a cooking pot containing meat curry.
The brothers were later arrested by police and jailed for two years.
They had once both been married with children, but their wives are said to have left them ahead of being detained by police three years ago.
The pair, from the small town of Darya Khan in the country's interior, had previously served two years in jail for cannibalism and were only released last year.
At the time, local police said the two men had dug up more than 100 corpses from the local graveyard and eaten them.
Mohammad Arif has now been rearrested as an investigation gets underway in to the grim discovery at his house.
His brother Mohammad Farman is still being hunted by police.
District police chief, Ameer Abdullah, said officers swooped after residents complained of a bad smell coming from the brothers' home.
'Residents informed police after a stench emanated from the house of the two brothers,' he said.
'We raided the house on Monday morning and found the head of a young boy,' a district police chief, Ameer Abdullah, told Reuters.
'We have arrested one of the brothers, Mohammad Arif, and are conducting raids for the arrest of the other brother.'
Police were searching nearby graveyards to see if they had been disturbed, he said.
The pair were initially jailed after police found that the corpse of a 24-year-old woman had disappeared from its grave in 2011.
Further investigations led officers to the brothers' house where they found a cooking pot containing meat curry.
The brothers were later arrested by police and jailed for two years.
They had once both been married with children, but their wives are said to have left them ahead of being detained by police three years ago.
Source - DM