SYDNEY
(AFP) – A Papua New Guinea man described as a vampire has been arrested after
allegedly murdering his young daughter by biting her neck, eating her flesh and
drinking her blood, a report said Friday.
Police
called the grisly incident that occurred on Wednesday at a settlement near Lae
“an act of cannibalism”.
The
PNG Post Courier cited local councillor John Kenny, who was one of the first on
the scene, as saying the three-year-old child and her mother were visiting the
father when he grabbed the girl and ran off into nearby bushes.
Kenny
said the man allegedly held the toddler close to him, bit deep into her neck,
ate the flesh and sucked her blood.
Two
boys who were climbing a coconut tree nearby saw him and ran quickly to raise
the alarm.
“He
was just laughing at the boys and continued eating the flesh and sucking the
blood,” Kenny told the newspaper.
“The
boys were scared and ran quickly to alert the people.”
When
people arrived to investigate the man reportedly dumped the body in the bushes
and ran away before being caught and turned over to police.
PNG
is a sprawling nation where black magic, sorcery and cannibalism sometimes
occur.
Last
year police arrested dozens of people linked to an alleged cannibal cult
accused of killing at least seven people, eating their brains raw and making
soup from their penises.
There
have been several other recent cases linked to cults, witchcraft and
cannibalism, with a man in 2011 reportedly found eating his screaming, newborn
son during a sorcery initiation ceremony.
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