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A woman in Russia is alleged to have taken matters into her own hands when she found her cat dead in her St. Petersburg apartment.

She accused her male roommate of killing the feline and allegedly used a hammer to bludgeon him to death, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail, citing Russian news sources.

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Police said Anastasia Kh, 41, then hacked the man’s body to pieces with a handsaw before travelling on a bus with the bagged parts five kilometres away where she dumped and burned them.

“She hit him with a hammer on the head,” the Daily Mail cited a translated statement from a Russian investigative committee.

“Having killed him, the woman suspect dismembered the body.”

Police were alerted to the body parts by a man walking his dog. At the scene, they found leg bones, ribs, one shoulder, parts of the victim’s pelvis and human skin inside the bags, reports Komsomolskaya Pravda.

After detaining Kh in their murder investigation, police found blood spots on the floor of the apartment they shared with two other people.

According to Russia’s REN TV, the other roommates didn’t notice the man was killed.

Police added the pair was involved in a “long running dispute” and that the woman blamed the man for killing her cat.