Looters ransacking one of the deserted homes of former Central African Republic President François Bozizé apparently made an extremely unpleasant discovery last month after rebels overthrew the government: two human skeletons stashed in two holes beneath the ousted leader’s garage floor (see the picture above). AFP has more:

At the house in Sassara, on the outskirts of the capital Bangui, Colonel Ali Garba — one of the Seleka rebels whose coalition toppled Bozize from power last month — gives a tour….

He indicates the spot where the bodies were found, at the back of the garage, stowed in two-metre deep recesses underneath square tiles. All that now remains in the space is a scrap of coloured fabric.

"I saw them. They were bones with no flesh. The people had been dead for a while, at least several months, maybe more," he says….

As he scoured the completely ransacked house, Garba says he also found the dead body of a presidential guard, apparently killed during clashes between Bozize’s supporters and rebels.

"The Red Cross collected the body of the guard and the skeletons," Garba says, a claim backed up by near neighbours.

The Red Cross could not however be contacted to find out where the skeletons were taken.