Digital Desk: Police in New Zealand have opened a homicide investigation after it was claimed that human remains were hidden inside bags purchased at an auction in Auckland, the nation's largest metropolis.
Unknown
numbers of skeletal remains are thought to have been kept in bags that were
auctioned off as part of a storage unit sale and transported home by a gullible
family after they won the bid.
According
to police officer Tofilau Faamanuia Vaaelua, residents at a property in South
Auckland alerted police last Thursday after making the terrible find.
Police
don't think the family had anything to do with the alleged homicide.
According
to Vaaelua, "the goal for police is to authenticate the identity of the
dead so that we can determine the whole circumstances surrounding the
discovery."
The
number of victims was being ascertained through a post-mortem examination,
according to the police.
For
storage units with unpaid bills, it's normal practise to auction off abandoned
items.
A South Auckland storage facility's owner told the news website
Stuff that his company is working with police on the investigation.
According to the news source Newshub, cops may be handling the
remains of several bodies.
Police, according to Vaaelua, "do not currently perceive any
immediate risk to the public as a result of this occurrence."
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