September 13, 2004

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  Man Exhumes and Eats Grandson's Corpse

  
  

   

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Mon Sep 13, 8:41 AM ET

  
  

  
  

  LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian police have arrested a man who exhumed, cooked and ate part of his grandson's corpse.
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  A hunter found the man eating pieces of flesh in a graveyard .
  

  
  

  "The man exhumed a corpse and cut off some flesh which he cooked in a pot and started eating ... we went to the grave of his grandson and verified that he had exhumed the body."
  

  Police had no idea why the man, who had no history of madness, had started eating his grandson, who died in July. The man was charged with interfering with a dead body and also for trespass in the graveyard.
  

   

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