Four people have been arrested after a London scientist was found dismembered in a suitcase in Colombia.
Alessandro Coatti, who worked for the prestigious Royal Society of Biology (RSB), was found by a group of children in Santa Marta in April.
The 42-year-old’s head, hands and feet were all found inside the suitcase and his torso and other parts of his body were found more than two weeks later.
Colombia’s attorney general’s office and Rome’s prosecution office have confirmed four people have been arrested, Colombian media reports.
Oswal Moisés Ospino Navarro, Isaac Enrique Márquez Charris, Andrea Camila Berdugo Escorcia and Brian Augusto Cantillo Salcedo have all been detained on suspicion of aggravated homicide.
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The Italian-born scientist had been a post-graduate neuroscience researcher at University College London.