A bag containing dismembered body parts was found in a flowerbed on a promenade in Osaka City earlier this week, police said Friday.
According to police, a passerby saw a green bag with its top open at around 1:50 p.m. on March 19 on the promenade along the Dojima River in Fukushima Ward, TV Asahi reported. He called 110 and said something that looked like part of a body was sticking out of the top of the bag.
Police said the bag, which was 48 cm long and 58 cm wide, contained human skin tissue, parts of a rib, about 10 pieces of flesh and 20 bone fragments.
An autopsy showed the remains were that of a man, but his age is unknown, police said. The cause and time of death have not been disclosed.
Police said they are examining security camera footage in the area to try and determine who left the bag on the promenade.
© Japan Today
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owzer
Interesting how that works, innit?
WA4TKG
There goes the neighborhood
Meiyouwenti
Interesting how that works, innit?
Perhaps a DNA analysis of the body parts can tell the gender of the dead.
HopeSpringsEternal
Not a great 'Look' for Osaka, tourists and locals surely not too pleased but the town does have this reputation...
garypen
Pretty gruesome. I hope they can identify the victim to give their family some closure. It would be even more amazing if they could identify how they died, and, even more so, whomever dismembered the body and therefor probably murdered them.