Brussels, Belgium:

A person in his mid-30s in Belgium has confessed to killing his mom and sticking components of her physique in a fridge present in a canal within the nation’s east, prosecutors mentioned Friday.

The fridge with its grisly contents — two arms and two legs — was discovered Tuesday bobbing in a canal on the outskirts of town of Liege, triggering a homicide investigation.

That led detectives to find the remainder of the lady’s physique — her head and torso — in a trash container thrown in a close-by river.

A tattoo on the torso helped determine the sufferer as a lady in her 70s, a spokeswoman for the Liege prosecutors’ workplace informed AFP.

Her son, born in 1988, was arrested simply earlier than daybreak on Thursday in a lodge near Brussels’s airport.

He apparently was making ready to take a flight to South Korea, the spokeswoman, Catherine Collignon, mentioned.

Underneath questioning by police, the person “confessed”, she added, and the investigating choose ordered him charged and brought into custody.

Early indications within the investigation counsel the mom and son had common arguments after he moved again in along with her after the Covid pandemic.

The killing was mentioned to have occurred in Seraing, a southwestern neighbourhood of Liege, the place the lady lived along with her two kids and a grandchild, in line with native media.

The suspect was mentioned to have confessed to the killing to somebody in his entourage, who shared the knowledge with one other one who spoke to police.

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