Tourist eaten by cannibals

FORENSIC experts fear a missing German yachtsman was “hacked to pieces and burned” by cannibals while visiting a remote island in French Polynesia on the trip of a lifetime.

Ash remains, believed to be those of 40-year-old Hamburg man Stefan Ramin, have been found in a valley in Nuku Hiva, the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.

Radio New Zealand International reports tests will be undertaken on the ash, which police found at a fire site after they went to search for Ramin and local guide Henri Haiti.