Cannibalism suspected in Vienna murder case

Police in the Austrian capital today said they were interrogating a young German citizen suspected of murdering a fellow homeless man and possibly eating his entrails.

The suspect, described only as a 19-year-old German man, is suspected of cracking the victim's skull using a 10-kilo dumbbell and cutting open his ribcage with a switchblade, the Austria Press Agency reported. A police spokeswoman confirmed the report.