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BANGKOK — A parcel delivery company in Bangkok put three packages bound for the United States through a routine X-ray and made a startling discovery — inside were a variety of preserved human parts, including an infant’s head, a baby’s foot and an adult heart.

The company, DHL, alerted police who tracked down the sender, a 31-year-old American tourist who said he found the items at a Bangkok night market, police Col. Chumpol Poompuang said.

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“He said he thought the body parts were bizarre and wanted to send them to his friends in the U.S.,” Chumpol said, adding that the man was questioned for several hours and released without charges.

The three packages, which contained five body pieces, were labeled as toys, police said. They were being sent to Las Vegas, including one parcel that the man had addressed to himself.

Chumpol had earlier said a baby’s heart and intestines were among the body parts. But police at a news conference later in the day said the heart, which had been stabbed, was from an adult and there were no preserved intestines.