Police recover headless body in Tamil Nadu

CHENNAI: Police have recovered a headless body from a forest area at Periayapalayam on Saturday night. The body was found burnt and buried.
Police were alerted by passersby and exhumed the body. The identity is yet to be ascertained. A goat herder found a body buried in the sand. He alerted other villagers who alerted the Periyapalayam police.
Tiruvallur SP Varun Kumar inspected the scene and the body was exhumed in the presence of Uthukottai tahsildar Raman. The police found the torso was half-burnt. It was sent for post-mortem to Tiruvallur government hospital.
Police are checking the list of missing people from the locality and have launched a search for the head to ascertain identity of the victim. Police suspect the victim was murdered elsewhere.