By Own Correspondent| National deputy police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has said the police are yet to establish if the human head found in a Fun Cargo vehicle in Belvedere yesterday morning was dismembered from the body discovered in Workington, Harare earlier.
He said this after a Harare man was on Saturday arrested after he was found with a human head in a stolen Fun Cargo vehicle.
Assistant Commissioner Nyathi earlier on confirmed the arrest, saying the discovery of the head coincides with another discovery of a disfigured body of a man found in a disused toilet at corner Lytton and Parsley Roads in Workington yesterday.
He said while police were still investigating the case of the disfigured body, which had no head, the police had received a report of a stolen Fun Cargo vehicle.
According to Assistant Commissioner Nyathi, the owner of the Fun Cargo vehicle, who resides in Warren Park, was hired by the suspect to carry a door and the later disappeared with the car.
The suspect was later stopped by police at a roadblock in Belvedere, where upon he tried to escape, resulting in a police chase.
During the chase the getaway suspect was involved in an accident, hitting two cars, before he was apprehended.
A human head was then found in the car.-StateMedia