Two brothers previously
jailed for cannibalism and then released, have been arrested again after police
discovered a child's severed head at their home in a remote village in
northwest Pakistan.
Mohammed Arif Ali was
arrested early Monday after neighbors alerted police to a "foul
smell" coming from his house in the village of Kahawar Khan in the Bhakkar
district of Punjab, district police chief Ameer Abdullah Khan said.
When they went to
investigate, they discovered the decapitated head of an infant next to a
burning stove. The head, which is now being examined at a hospital in the
nearby village of Darya Khan, looked to be around five days old, Abdullah said
Arif Ali was arrested
at the scene, while his brother, Mohammed Farman Ali, was apprehended by police
hours later on the outskirts of their village.
Police said both men
confessed to eating human flesh.
The brothers were
released from prison last year after serving a two-year jail term for similar
offenses -- they admitted dismembering a woman's body they had stolen from a
graveyard in Darya Khan where they lived at the time.
With no explicit law
on cannibalism in Pakistan, the two men were convicted of desecrating a dead
body and other public order offenses in a case that provoked widespread
revulsion across Pakistan, according to CNN affiliate Geo TV.
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