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A man shot his aunt, uncle and cousin before he sliced them up and boiled their body parts in a saucepan.

Police were scrambled when neighbours began to complain about a bad smell coming from the flat.

As they smashed through the front door they suddenly heard a gunshot and rushed in to find the 29-year-old suspect had blasted himself in the head.

He was rushed to hospital, but he died before he got there.

Police were met with a horror scene as they found the remains of several human bodies - and body parts in saucepans - across the flat.

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Police believe the suspected cannibal was planning to make the family into a "stew" and eat them after finding he had put their boiled remains into cans.

They have been identified as a 51-year-old woman, her 68-year-old husband and their son.

It's believed the family were murdered and chopped up using kitchen knives by their nephew and cousin after they came to visit him.

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Cops also found two guns and ammunition at the home and hundreds of books piled-high on the ground.

Andrey Krischenko, chief of Kiev police, said in a statement : "When we entered the flat, we saw body parts in cans and saucepans.

"The nephew was boiling his relatives in saucepans."

A police source added: "The nephew boiled the body parts of his relatives and made stew meat, using several saucepans.

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"He had managed to seal several cans of stew meat by the time police arrived."

Neighbours near the home Kyiv Solomenskiy called police after they hadn't seen the family for a few days and began to notice a an unpleasant smell coming from the home.

Police fear the killer could have dismembered others in the same way.