Boy’s head found in home of convicted Pakistani cannibals

Brothers who dug up and ate 100 corpses were recently freed from jail

Police are searching for a second cannibal after finding a child’s head in his brother’s house. File Photograph: Reuters
Police are searching for a second cannibal after finding a child’s head in his brother’s house. File Photograph: Reuters

Pakistani police re-arrested a convicted cannibal today after finding a young boy’s head in his home.

Mohammad Arif (35), and his brother Mohammad Farman (30), from the small town of Darya Khan in central Pakistan, served two years in jail for cannibalism and were released last year.

Police said the two had dug up more than 100 corpses from the local graveyard and eaten them.

“Residents informed police after a stench emanated from the house of the two brothers. We raided the house on Monday morning and found the head of a young boy,” said district police chief Ameer Abdullah.

READ MORE

“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.