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Firefighters responding
to a house fire in central France found the dismembered body of an 83-year-old
woman in her freezer on New Year’s Day, sources close to the investigation told
AFP on Thursday.
The woman’s grandson, in his 30s, was
questioned at the scene and detained pending further investigations. The fire
brigade said it was called on Wednesday evening to a house in an isolated
hamlet in the Haute-Vienne department of France.
They managed to put out a fire, which was
contained to a single room, but were at first unable to find any occupants in
the house. Firefighters and police searched the property and found the
mutilated corpse of the 83-year-old in the freezer, one source with knowledge
of the investigation said. The grandson, who was at the house, made conflicting
statements to police, a second source said. A post mortem examination will be
carried out as part of the investigation.
SOURCE: VANGUARD
