Police search for severed head and limbs of British teen in Brazil

BRAZILIAN police were searching yesterday for the head, arms and legs of a British teenager whose grisly murder, allegedly by her Brazilian boyfriend, has shocked Brazil and Britain.

Authorities say Cara Marie Burke, aged 17, from London, was stabbed to death by Mohamed D’Ali Carvalho dos Santos, 20, last weekend in his apartment in Goiania, central Brazil.

Santos then allegedly cut up her body, putting the torso in a suitcase that was found on Tuesday near a river in the town.