Police in Machinga have arrested two men for allegedly possessing nine human bones which they wanted to sell to a lady in Liwonde Township who is currently at large.
Police Public Relations Officer in Machinga, Constable Davie Sulumba confirmed the arrest of Mussa Kachepa, 47 and Muhammad James 27 as they were in the processes of selling the bones.
He said a lady tipped the police of Kaschepa’s possession of human bones which were buried in a bush near her house.
Upon digging the spot where Kachepa hid his travelling bag, it was discovered that the bag contained human bones.
The police arrested Kachepa and James as his accomplice in the scheme and the two will answer charges of ‘being found in possession of human tissues.
This is contrary to Section 129 of the Penal Code, according to the Machinga police publicist.
According to Sulumba, Kachepa confessed that the bag was his and that the bones in the bag was from a person who died of leprosy in Mozambique
He told the police that he wanted to sell the bones to a lady who is not named in Liwonde Township.
In the meantime police are looking for the lady whom they did not mention yet.
Recently, Second grade magistrate court at Machinga Boma sentenced a Fainos Walusa aged 18 and an old lady Esmay Dyman to four years imprisonment each for possessing human bones.
Walusa was involved in exhuming remains of a person who died after committing suicide while Dyman who is above 60 years old led the young man and others who are at large to a specific spot where the body was buried.
The exhumed remains were of a woman who died in 2006, according to Dyman.
