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 told CNN Tuesday.
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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