BANGKOK
Thai post workers were left shocked when they opened three suspicious packages at a Bangkok post office late Saturday - inside were a baby's head in formaldehyde, parts of a baby's foot, two pieces of tattooed skin and an infant human heart.
Two foreign men who sent the parcels were detained, interrogated, and then set free Sunday, after explaining that they had bought the body parts on a Bangkok market and decided to send them to friends in the United States as a joke.
The Bangkok Post quoted the forensic science doctor who had inspected the parts Sunday as saying that the flesh had been cut and preserved in such a way that it can only have been done by "experts."
Kornkiat Wongpaisarnsin said that since they had been kept in formaldehyde for years it would be difficult to ascertain from whom they were taken.
The foreigners' names have not been released.
In 2012, six fetuses - roasted and covered with gold - were discovered by Thai police in the luggage of a British citizen of Taiwanese extraction.
It was suspected that the man had bought the fetuses to bring him good luck.
According to local customs, some people believe that by keeping such objects at home or in their businesses it will bring them good fortune.
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