ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russian prosecutors say two young men — one of them a butcher — have been arrested on suspicion of <span style="font-weight: bold">killing a 16-year-old girl and eating parts of her body</span>.
The girl disappeared after leaving her home in St. Petersburg for school on Jan. 19.
A city prosecutor’s spokesman says she was killed that night, and that body parts believed to be hers were found in plastic bags scattered around the city.
Police arrested Yuri Mozhnov, a florist, and Maxim Golovatskikh, <span style="font-weight: bold">a street-market butcher and one-time psychiatric patient</span> on Saturday.
Prosecutors say 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.
Prosecutors believe they drowned the girl in a bathtub.
The girl disappeared after leaving her home in St. Petersburg for school on Jan. 19.
A city prosecutor’s spokesman says she was killed that night, and that body parts believed to be hers were found in plastic bags scattered around the city.
Police arrested Yuri Mozhnov, a florist, and Maxim Golovatskikh, <span style="font-weight: bold">a street-market butcher and one-time psychiatric patient</span> on Saturday.
Prosecutors say 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.
Prosecutors believe they drowned the girl in a bathtub.
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