London police have arrested a 36-year-old man in connection with human remains found in two suitcases in the southwestern city of Bristol.
The Metropolitan Police said in a statement that the man was arrested in south London on Friday and taken into custody – as a hunt continues for another individual believed to be linked to the case.
The suitcases and their grisly contents were found on on Clifton Suspension Bridge, and are thought to be holding the remains of two people who have yet to be identified, police say
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The investigation began when Avon and Somerset Police received a call late on Wednesday about a man with a suitcase “acting suspiciously” on the bridge in Bristol. The suitcases were later found in the area, Avon and Somerset Police said on Thursday.
Authorities later said that a “man wanted in connection with the incident had traveled to Bristol from London earlier the same day.” Police have not yet identified or located that individual, despite a large-scale search involving the police helicopter and coastguard, police said in a statement.
The person arrested on Friday is not the same individual as the one police were initially looking for. “This is not the same man we are appealing for,” police said.
Vicks Hayward-Melen, acting Bristol commander of Avon and Somerset Police, told the BBC’s Today program Friday that officers and initial attendants at the scene are being supported after the “really horrendous discovery.”