guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 February 2009 15.25 GMT
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Two young men – one of them a butcher – have been arrested on suspicion of killing a 16-year-old girl and eating parts of her body, Russian prosecutors said today.
The girl disappeared after leaving her home in St Petersburg for school on 19 January, said Sergei Kapitonov, a spokesman for the city prosecutor.
He said she was killed that night, and body parts believed to be hers were found in plastic bags scattered around the city.
Police arrested Yuri Mozhnov, a florist, and Maxim Golovatskikh, a street-market butcher and one-time psychiatric patient on Saturday, Kapitonov said.
The suspects, both 19, knew the victim, and she accompanied them voluntarily to an apartment rented by another acquaintance on the day she went missing, Kapitonov said. Prosecutors believe they drowned the girl in a bathtub.
"The arrestees said they ate the girl's body parts because they were hungry," Kapitonov said.Bags with body parts were found in at least two locations, he said. Both men are being held on suspicion of murder.
A St Petersburg news website, fontanka.ru, quoted a city prosecutor, Andrei Lavrenko, as saying investigators believed the suspects decided to kill the victim after an argument erupted between her and Golovatskikh. Lavrenko said investigators found traces of blood when they ripped out plumbing and floorboards in the apartment, the website reported.
The Moscow-based tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda reported a department head at the St Petersburg forensic medicine office, Vitaly Sysoyev, as saying the body parts had not been positively identified as the girl's, who was still officially listed as missing.
Mozhnov had been convicted of robbery in 2005, Kapitonov said, and Golovatskikh had been treated in the past at a psychiatric hospital.
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