Origins of human hand still to be ascertained

The palm was sent to a hospital laboratory for medical examinations after suspicions arose that it could also be that of a baboon.

Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Mandlenkosi Moyo yesterday said the results were not yet out.

“We are still waiting for the results from medical experts, without their report there is nothing much we can say,” said Insp Moyo.
The palm caused a stir in Tshabalala after residents stumbled on it near Basic Shopping Centre.

The decomposing hand had skin peeling off, long nails and a thumb missing.

Speculation had been rife among residents that it was a human hand suspected to have been used for ritual purposes.

In August last year, a human leg was discovered in Famona suburb and it led to the discovery of a gruesome murder in which a man killed his wife and chopped her into pieces.

In February this year, residents of Ilanda suburb woke up to a grisly sight of a human foot dumped at a bush behind the United Bulawayo Hospitals’ (UBH) Opportunistic Infections Clinic (OIC).

The leg was later traced to a victim of a hit-and-run accident who was later buried at his rural home with his foot still missing.

The man’s wife later tried to sue the family of the man who ran him over for $2 million.