Two young men – one of them a butcher – have been arrested on suspicion of killing a 16-year-old girl and eating parts of her body, Russian prosecutors said today.
The girl disappeared after leaving her home in St Petersburg for school on 19 January, said Sergei Kapitonov, a spokesman for the city prosecutor.
He said she was killed that night, and body parts believed to be hers were found in plastic bags scattered around the city.
Police arrested Yuri Mozhnov, a florist, and Maxim Golovatskikh, a street-market butcher and one-time psychiatric patient on Saturday, Kapitonov said.
The suspects, both 19, knew the victim, and she accompanied them voluntarily to an apartment rented by another acquaintance on the day she went missing, Kapitonov said. Prosecutors believe they drowned the girl in a bathtub.
"The arrestees said they ate the girl's body parts because they were hungry," Kapitonov said. Bags with body parts were found in at least two locations, he said. Both men are being held on suspicion of murder.
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