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Severed head found in garbage bin

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, AUG. 7. The severed head and a hand of a man were found in a garbage bin at Sampangiramnagar on Saturday.

The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) garbage clearance employees found the head and the decomposed hand along with hospital waste in a bin behind the Banashankari Temple on 1st Main, Sampangiramnagar, the police said.

The police suspect that the staff of some hospital in the area could have dumped the severed parts in the bin along with hospital waste.

"We suspect that the head and the limb could have been severed from a cadaver used for research by a hospital," a senior police official said.

The police have sent the severed organs to Victoria Hospital for examination.

The Sampangiramnagar police have registered a case.

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