Australian shark's grisly meal

Police in Australia say they are checking the files of unsolved murder cases and missing persons after human remains were found inside a huge Tiger shark caught off the country's south-east coast.

The gruesome discovery was made after the fishermen who caught the three-metre long shark opened up its stomach.

The remains, including a skull, arm and pelvis, have been taken away for a post mortem.

Police are contacting experts to find out about digestion rates, currents and tides to try and work out how far away the shark was when it ate its grisly meal.

A similar case was recorded in 1936 when a Tiger shark caught and moved to an aquarium in Sydney regurgitated a human arm found to be that of a murder victim.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service