LAHORE: Pakistani police yesterday arrested a second man suspected along with his brother of eating a newborn baby whose head was found at their home, officials said.
Farman Ali was detained a day after police arrested his brother Mohammad Arif following the grisly discovery at their house in a remote district in Punjab.
The pair had been arrested for eating human corpses in the same village in 2011 and served two years in prison in a case that shocked Pakistan.
Arif has told police that Ali stole the body of the two-day-old child from a graveyard in Darya Khan village, around 300 kilometres south of Islamabad, before they cooked and ate it.
Ameer Abdullah, police chief of Bhakkar district where the village is located, said that Ali was detained yesterday and the brothers had been brought to court for a remand hearing.
AFP
