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Sat 11 Nov 2009Alleged killers who harvested human fat arrested in Peru
POLICE IN Peru have arrested members of a gang which allegedly killed scores of peasants, drained their bodies of fat and sold it abroad as an anti-wrinkle cosmetic.
Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Col Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru’s anti-kidnapping police, but the number of victims was believed to be much higher – and to date back decades. Two suspects were held at a bus station in Lima carrying bottles of liquid fat which they claimed was worth up to $13,000 (€8,700) a litre.
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