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Alexandru Pop, 46, was found dead by horrified relatives when he hadn't returned and they went out looking for him.

Grieving nephew Andrei Lexandru, 22, said: "He had gone out to feed the pigs but when he hadn't come back two hours later we decided to see where he was.

"He was a suffering from a weak heart and we were afraid he may have had an attack.

"Then we found him in the pigsty with half his face eaten off."

An autopsy revealed the farmer, from north-western Romania, had died from severe haemorrhaging.

A spokesman from the Cluj Forensic Institute, where his body was taken, said: "The family assumed he'd had a heart attack and had then been eaten.

"But shocking though it is, the indications are that he most likely slipped and was then eaten."

The man-eating pigs have now been destroyed and their bodies burnt after the man's relatives decided it would not be right to sell them into the food chain.

Earlier this week a man in South Africa revealed his horrific injuries after a lion attacked him on a safari tour.

He miraculously survived the attack and posted gruesome pictures of his scars on Facebook.