Human skull dumped in Rome church
21 Nov, 2013
Updated Thu 21 Nov 2013 10:18 CEST
A priest in Rome's Testaccio neighbourhood made a grisly discovery this week when he found a bag containing parts of a human skull.
The priest came across an abandoned plastic bag on a table in the San Benedetto church on Tuesday, Il Messaggero reported.
On opening it, he discovered the yellowed parts of a human skull and promptly phoned the police.
The colour of the bones suggest that they are not from a person who has died recently, although who dumped them in the church remains a mystery, the newspaper report said.
The skull parts will be examined by coroners at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, part of Rome’s La Sapienza University.
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The priest came across an abandoned plastic bag on a table in the San Benedetto church on Tuesday, Il Messaggero reported.
On opening it, he discovered the yellowed parts of a human skull and promptly phoned the police.
The colour of the bones suggest that they are not from a person who has died recently, although who dumped them in the church remains a mystery, the newspaper report said.
The skull parts will be examined by coroners at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, part of Rome’s La Sapienza University.
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