Human foetuses were to be used in black magic ritual

Six human foetuses which had been roasted and covered in gold leaf as part of a black magic ritual have been seized from a British citizen in Bangkok, Thai police have said.

Chow Hok Kuen, 28, who is of Taiwanese origin, was arrested with the grisly haul in a hotel in the city’s Chinatown on Thursday, police said. The corpses had been stuffed into travel bags, apparently to be smuggled to Taiwan.

The corpses were bought from a Taiwanese national for 200,000 baht (€5,000) and could have been sold for six times that amount in Taiwan, police said.