Police in southern China are probing a spate of grisly murders in which the victims were chopped into pieces, including one whose body parts were mailed across the country, state press said on Tuesday.
Police in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong province, have set up a special task force to investigate the cases, the China Daily reported.
In the most recent incident, sanitation workers on Sunday found a cut-up body in three plastic bags in Guangzhou’s Baiyun district, the newspaper said.
Police believe the victim to be a black man whose identity is unclear, the report said.
A day earlier, a woman shop owner’s torso was discovered crammed into three refrigerators in her store in nearby Foshan city
The woman’s husband has been detained for questioning, the paper said.
Police have also detained two people suspected of murdering a man and mailing his body parts to three different Chinese cities, the paper said.
The body parts were found in Beijing and the eastern Chinese cities of Qingdao and Jiangyin last week, after being postmarked from Guangzhou. – AFP
