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Vancouver body parts from Montreal victim

NPA Councillor George Affleck talks to reporters as the parent of a child who with other students return to False Creek Elementary in Vancouver, British Columbia, June 6, 2012, a day after a package containing a human hand was delivered there shortly before another package containing a human foot was discovered by staff at Vancouver's St. George's (private) School. The body parts were tested to see if they belong to the murdered and dismembered Montreal man for which fugitive Luka Magnotta was arrested. UPI / Heinz Ruckemann
NPA Councillor George Affleck talks to reporters as the parent of a child who with other students return to False Creek Elementary in Vancouver, British Columbia, June 6, 2012, a day after a package containing a human hand was delivered there shortly before another package containing a human foot was discovered by staff at Vancouver's St. George's (private) School. The body parts were tested to see if they belong to the murdered and dismembered Montreal man for which fugitive Luka Magnotta was arrested. UPI / Heinz Ruckemann | License Photo

MONTREAL, June 14 (UPI) -- Canadian police have confirmed a human hand and foot mailed to two Vancouver schools belong to a Chinese student dismembered in Montreal last month.

The Quebec coroner's office said the parts belonged to Lin Jun, 33. His other hand and foot were mailed to two political parties in Ottawa in late May. The same day, a limbless and headless torso was found in a suitcase beside a trash heap in Montreal. The head has not been found, The (Montreal) Gazette reported.

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Police have said the Concordia University student was likely killed May 24. A gruesome video posted online and since removed is thought to be a record of Lin's death. A man is seen stabbing someone repeatedly with an ice pick, dismembering the body and cannibalizing it.

The prime suspect is Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, a gay porn actor and model. Police said his apartment was an obvious crime scene and an international alert was issued when it became apparent he had fled to Europe.

Magnotta was spotted in Paris and two days later while he was at an Internet cafe in Berlin reading news reports about himself, the clerk recognized him and he was arrested.

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He remains in a Berlin prison in self-chosen solitary confinement while Canadian and German officials work out extradition details.

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