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Cops: 121 skulls in Gansu of human beings
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-04-05 08:56 The 121 skulls found on a hillside in Gansu
Province are human, a forensic medical expert with the Ministry of Public
Security announced last night.
A total of
121 skulls whose tops had been sawn off were
discovered last week in a forest in Northwest China's Gansu Province. DNA
tests are underway to work out if the skulls belong to human
being. The skulls were first thought to be
monkeys, but a local professor held a suspicion that they belong to human
being as he had found plastic teeth in a jaw of one of the skulls.
[Lanzhou Morning Post] |
The skulls
showed lethal head injuries and the crowns of many of the skulls were sawn off,
police said.
Authorities declined to speculate about the nature of the killings.
State Radio cited the expert, Chen Shixian, about the state of the skulls.
The tops had been sawn off after the people died, according to China National
Radio.
Chen said the skulls were not sawn for medical purposes. He said the victims
were of all ages and both genders, as did scientist Liu Naifa at Lanzhou
University in the provincial capital Lanzhou.
Police were investigating, including the source of the skulls and location of
the sawn-off parts.
A herdsman in the Tibet Autonomous County of Tianzhu in Gansu found the
skulls in a hillside forest in Tanshanling Town on February 25. Another villager
told police on March 27.
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