This cult will make a meal of you Spate of incidents of cannibalism in different parts of the world

This cult will make a meal of you

Spate of incidents of cannibalism in different parts of the world

Vancouver/Berlin/Brasilia: Cannibalism seems to be becoming the order of the day the world over with a number of incidents being reported since last month. While packages containing a human hand and foot were delivered to schools in Vancouver, Canada, on Tuesday, three Brazilians were charged with murdering three women and eating their flesh as part of a cult in which they sought to purify their souls and control population growth, the police said. There was no immediate evidence to link the two parcels sent to Vancouver to Luka Rocco Magnotta, wanted in Canada on charges of killing and dismembering a Chinese student and posting a video of the crime online. But Vancouver police investigator Warren Lemcke said the local police were in contact with the authorities in Montreal, where police say a foot and a hand are among the body parts still missing after the murder of Jun Lin, 32. Magnotta, 29, who has a bizarre internet trail as a gay escort, a porn star and kitten killer, was arrested in a Berlin internet cafe on Monday after an international manhunt. He had been reading articles online about the hunt for the killer. Meanwhile, Brasilia authorities said the three — a married couple and a woman each facing a maximum of 30 years in jail — claimed to be part of a cult called ‘El Cartel’. “Their modus operandi was to select victims with impure lives and approach them with offers of employment before killing them,” said police spokesman Paulo Berenguer.