Starving dogs eat owner

Rescuers placing the owner's skull into a bag. Pic from http://updatednews.ca

Seven starving dogs in Indonesia apparently ate their owner when he returned home from a two-week holiday in his hometown in Manado last Wednesday. His body parts were discovered only on Monday.

A neighbourhood guard was curious when he saw luggage lined up at the front of Andre Lumboga's house, days after the 50-year old returned home. He approached the house, smelled something foul and called the police, Reuters reported.

"His skull was found in the kitchen, and his body was found in the front of his house," Eriyana, a local police chief in Batam, an island off Sumatra, told VIVAnews website.

Lumboga arrived home last Wednesday, but his body was discovered on Monday.

"We suspect that the dogs were hungry, so they attacked Andre, because they had not been fed for 14 days," he said. Police also found bones of two other dogs, believed to have also been eaten by the hungry canines.

Lumboga was from northern Sulawesi island, a predominantly Christian area, where the local spicy diet is famous for including dogs, bats and forest rats.

Published Sept 7 2011

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