Bag of bones

Mar 13 2008

A woman was stopped at Munich airport after baggage control handlers found the skeleton of her brother sealed in a plastic bag in her luggage.

The woman and her friend, on their way to Italy from Brazil, were hauled in by airport police after a scan of the bag showed a human head and other bones.

It later emerged that the woman was trying to grant the last wish of her brother - who died 11 years ago in Sao Paulo, Brazil - to be buried in Italy, where she lives.