Police in Amsterdam are investigating whether a severed head found outside a water pipe cafe belongs to a decapitated body discovered in a burnt-out car in the city.

The head was discovered Wednesday morning outside a cafe close to Amsterdam's popular Vondelpark, a day after the headless body was found in the scorched remains of a car on the edge of the Dutch capital.

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It was found by a passerby in a blue bucket outside Fayrouz Lounge at about 7.30am Wednesday local time.

“It was covered in blood,” a witness said.

Detectives identified the body as 23-year-old Nabil Amzieb, and said he was "known to police."

According to the Telegraaf, Amzieb was a member of the Moroccan mafia, however other reports say this is not the case.

“We have been confronted with an extremely gruesome find. It is a shock for public order,” Amsterdam’s mayor Eberhard van der Laan reportedly said of the incident.

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