A Papua New Guinea man described as a vampire
has been arrested after allegedly murdering his young daughter by biting her
neck, eating her flesh and drinking her blood, a report said today.
Police called the
grisly incident that occurred on Wednesday at a settlement near Lae "an
act of cannibalism''.
The PNG Post Courier
cited local councillor John Kenny, who was one of the first on
the scene, as saying the three-year-old child and her mother were visiting the
father when he grabbed the girl and ran off into nearby bushes.
Kenny said the man allegedly held the toddler
close to him, bit deep into her neck, ate the flesh and sucked her blood.
Two boys who were climbing a coconut tree
nearby saw him and ran quickly to raise the alarm.
"He was just laughing at the boys and
continued eating the flesh and sucking the blood,'' Kenny told the newspaper.
"The boys were scared and ran quickly to
alert the people.''
When people arrived to investigate the man
reportedly dumped the body in the bushes and ran away before being caught and
turned over to police.
PNG is a sprawling nation where black magic,
sorcery and cannibalism sometimes occur.
Last year police arrested dozens of people
linked to an alleged cannibal cult accused of killing at least seven people,
eating their brains raw and making soup from their penises.
There have been several other recent cases
linked to cults, witchcraft and cannibalism, with a man in 2011 reportedly
found eating his screaming, newborn son during a sorcery initiation ceremony.
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