An 80-year-old man killed and dismembered his 84-year-old neighbor in the Nemyshlian district of Kharkiv.

After that, the suspect tried to escape from Ukraine. 

This is reported by the police of the Kharkiv region. 

A 45-year-old woman contacted the police because she found the body of a man without a head and hands in her father's house. 

Photo: Communications Department of the Kharkiv Oblast Police

Investigators established that the remains belong to an 84-year-old man who lived in a nearby house.

The owner of the premises where the corpse was found turned off his mobile phones and mysteriously disappeared.

Law enforcement officers searched for the 80-year-old suspect at one of the stops on the way out of Kharkiv. 

Photo: Communications Department of the Kharkiv Oblast Police

He confessed to the massacre and said that on January 19, two of the victims were drinking alcohol.

A dispute arose between neighbors during which the suspect killed an acquaintance with an ax.

Then he dismembered his body and buried part of the remains outside Kharkiv.

After that, the man ran away to start a new life abroad. 

Photo: Communications Department of the Kharkiv Oblast Police

"The man has been charged with premeditated murder. According to the sanction of the article, the pensioner can spend up to 15 years behind bars," the report says. 

Photo: Communications Department of the Kharkiv Oblast Police

It will be recalled that the Khmelnytskyi City District Court found a 46-year-old man guilty of premeditated murder and attempted murder and sentenced him to 14 years in prison.

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