LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian police have arrested a man who exhumed, cooked and ate part of his grandson's corpse, police said Monday.

Police spokeswoman Brenda Muntemba said a hunter found the man eating pieces of flesh in a graveyard in Milambo, 600 km (370 miles) north of the capital Lusaka.

"The man exhumed a corpse and cut off some flesh which he cooked in a pot and started eating ... we went to the grave of his grandson and verified that he had exhumed the body," Muntemba told Reuters.

Muntemba said police had no idea why the man, who had no history of madness, had started eating his grandson, who died in July. The man was charged with interfering with a dead body and also for trespass in the graveyard.

Business as usual in Africa.

What , he did'nt have anything better to do? Wow.

send more money over there..............................

Saw a show in the history channel about cannibalism once.  This was something they said was common.  Guess it made the eater feel as if the relative was part of them forever.

Weird.

Soilent green is people ya know.

One would "think" they would want "fresh" meat..
Not old and nasty "guessing?"

Wolf