A bag with 52 severed hands was found on a river island outside the city of Khabarovsk, in Russia’s Far East. Investigators say the gruesome find was not the work of a rampant serial killer, but the result of unlawful negligence.
The chilling discovery was made by local fishermen who initially stumbled upon one hand sticking out of the frozen ground, local media reported. They called police, who promptly arrived and uncovered a whole bag of human limbs, some partly decomposed and lacking fingers.

Disturbing images that were sent anonymously to several local outlets and appeared on Instagram and Telegram, have caused mush distress and speculation among social media users.

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Some of the more gruesome versions included, in particular, ritual killings, cannibalism and human organ trafficking. Yet, Russia’s Investigative Committee seems to have solved the mystery, writing on its Telegram channel that “the biological objects are not of criminal origin, but were disposed of in violation of the law.” It specified that investigators were still establishing all facts relating to the incident and that an inquiry into the work of all medical and judicial organizations in charge of biological waste disposal had been launched.

The statement gives credence to media speculation that the hands might belong to corpses of unidentifiable individuals. The general practice of morgue workers with such cases is to cut off one hand and send it for fingerprint analysis before disposing of the unidentified body. However, the remains must then be taken to a graveyard or cremated. The suspicion of negligence is supported by the fact bandages and shoe covers were reportedly found not far from the bag with the remains.

Under Khabarovsk in the river found a bag with dozens of severed human hands

A terrible find near Khabarovsk was made by local residents: a severed brush was found in the Amur River. Arriving on call, the criminalist found another 26 pairs of severed human limbs.

On one of the sections of the Beshenaya (Amur) canals, a human hand was found. Local residents called the police, who found a bag with the limbs of people, writes "Russian Dialogue."

According to the Khabarovsk mass media, all the limbs were chopped off. On the fingerprints of the hands of law enforcement officers will conduct a fingerprint examination.

Next to the remains were found bandages, shoe covers. Investigators do not exclude that the limbs were improperly disposed of as a biomaterial from a medical facility. Brushes in the morgue are chopped off by unidentified corpses for taking fingerprints and searching for data on the base.

A bag with hands was found on an island, which is now impossible to reach by car. Local fishermen say that they often come here, but did not notice anything suspicious.

Now the siloviks survey the coastline, interview local residents.

According to the laws of the Russian Federation, medical waste must be destroyed or disposed of properly in accordance with sanitary norms and regulations.

Recall that at the end of last year in the Moscow region, a jealous husband took his wife Margarita to the forest, mocked for a long time, demanding confessions of treason, and then chopped off his hands. The monster came to its senses in time and took his victim to the hospital. The doctors could save only one hand to the girl. After the resonance in the society, the suspect was detained, but he continues to threaten his wife. A mother of two children receives a note with threats.