Copycat cannibal arrested

Copycat cannibal arrested

PALU, Central Sulawesi: Villagers caught on Friday a man grave-
robbing, and told the police they had captured a copycat of
cannibal Sumanto.

A West Palu district villager, whose name was not given, saw
Yunus busy shoveling dirt with his bare hands from a plot at the
village graveyard early Friday morning, police officials said.

When the villager returned with others, Yunus had already
begun to uncover the white shroud of the corpse, revealing the
body of a baby. Villagers then captured him and dragged him to
the police station.

"It looks like Yunus is suffering from a mental illness," said
West Palu's crime unit police chief Second Insp. Bayu Widjanarko.

Yunus told the police that he had heard a voice telling him to
dig out corpses. "I felt like something was moving my feet," he
said.

Villagers dubbed him Yunus "Sumanto", the self-proclaimed
cannibal from Central Java.

Sumanto stood trial on Thursday following his confessions that
he had dug out a corpse and eaten it. He also claimed to have
eaten at least three human corpses. -- Antara