A South African man choked to death minutes after killing his wife and eating part of her face following a domestic argument, police said.
Police stormed into a house in rural KwaZulu-Natal, near the border with Mozambique, after neighbours reported a disturbance, Captain Tienkie van Vuuren said.
They found a 30-year-old woman who had been stabbed to death.
"Her husband was sitting naked on top of her," she said.
"He had stabbed her and was eating the flesh from her face. The guy came at them with a knife. They sprayed him with pepper spray but it didn't have any effect."
After a struggle, officers handcuffed the man - who was aged about 33 and had no history of mental illness - but soon afterwards he choked, collapsed and died, she said.
The couple's two daughters witnessed both their mother's stabbing and their father's death and were receiving counselling, as were the police officers, she said.
"It looks like a domestic dispute between husband and wife," she said.
"We do get a lot of domestic violence cases, but not to the extent that it goes as far as cannibalism."
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Police stormed into a house in rural KwaZulu-Natal, near the border with Mozambique, after neighbours reported a disturbance, Captain Tienkie van Vuuren said.
They found a 30-year-old woman who had been stabbed to death.
"Her husband was sitting naked on top of her," she said.
"He had stabbed her and was eating the flesh from her face. The guy came at them with a knife. They sprayed him with pepper spray but it didn't have any effect."
After a struggle, officers handcuffed the man - who was aged about 33 and had no history of mental illness - but soon afterwards he choked, collapsed and died, she said.
The couple's two daughters witnessed both their mother's stabbing and their father's death and were receiving counselling, as were the police officers, she said.
"It looks like a domestic dispute between husband and wife," she said.
"We do get a lot of domestic violence cases, but not to the extent that it goes as far as cannibalism."
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