LIMA, Nov 21, (AFP) -A Peruvian “brotherhood,” accused of murdering at least 60 people and selling victims' fat to foreign cosmetics traders, carried out its grisly work undetected for 30 years, Peruvian police said on Friday.
The gang used abandoned buildings in the Amazon jungle and high Andes to clandestinely butcher victims and “formed a network, or brotherhood that carried out criminal activities,” police general Eusebio Felix said.
Peruvian authorities have taken three men and a woman into custody and are hunting two unnamed Italians suspected of buying human fat for as much as 15,000 dollars a liter -- to be used in European cosmetics. |
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