MOSCOW, March 20 (RIA Novosti) - A woman has been
detained in central Ukraine on suspicion of cutting off her
husband's arms, legs and head, the Kriminal.tv crime website
reported on Friday.
Passersby discovered the headless and limbless torso of
the former Soviet special forces serviceman on the ice at a
reservoir in the city of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk Region,
the website reported, citing local police chief Vitaly Kodiya.
Around the same time as the grisly discovery was made,
police in another part of the city discovered a bloody head,
legs and arms in a garbage container. The victim was soon
identified, and officers determined that the man had been
killed by his wife.
Investigators established that the woman, who was not
named, had killed her husband after he had drunkenly begun to
practice combat sambo moves on her, including throwing knives
around her. Sambo is a Soviet-developed martial art.
The woman grabbed a hammer in self-defense and hit her
husband on the head with it, knocking him out.
She then dragged the body to the couple's shed, and
without knowing if he was dead or alive, cut off her spouse's
legs, arms, and finally his head. She then dumped his limbs and
head in a nearby trash container and threw his torso into the
reservoir.
The woman faces life behind bars.
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