BUCHAREST—Security agents at Bucharest’s international airport on Thursday found human remains in the luggage of a passenger preparing to leave for Italy, the general prosecutor’s office said.
“Baggage checking operations led to the discovery of a fragment of a human lower limb,” prosecutors said.
The owner of the luggage was a Chinese man, Mediafax news agency said.
“All possible leads are being examined,” prosecutors added, stressing that prosecutors, police and criminologists had been sent to the scene.
“The fragment of a human body was discovered during the first security check on the airport and the owner of the bag was held on the spot,” intelligence service (SRI) spokesman Sorin Sava told AFP.
Several gruesome murders involving Chinese nationals have been reported in Romania, especially in the 1990s.
In one case, two Chinese men killed a compatriot and boiled his body in an attempt to make it difficult to identify.
Another Chinese man was killed by several of his countrymen, his body minced and the remains thrown into the sewage system.
The bodies of four other Chinese were found inside suitcases, two of them in the back of a car, and two others floating in a lake in Bucharest.