A severed human head and foot have been found in a Canadian park, evoking memories of a Chinese student dismembered in the same country.
In the latest incident, the head was discovered by officers on the banks of the Credit River near Toronto, a day after hikers found the right foot nearby.
It is believed to be a woman's head and police are trying to establish if the body parts belong to the same person, and how old and tall the victim may have been.
The nails of the cut-off foot, which was seen floating near the river bank, were painted with yellow polish - suggesting the foot was a female's.
Police cannot yet say if the body parts, discovered in Hewick Meadows Park in Mississauga, were placed there or if they were moved there by the water from some other point in the river.
Divers and sniffer dogs have helped investigators search through the park.
"Without a cause of death, we can't call it homicide, but certainly foul play - there's definitely something amiss," said acting inspector Randy Cowan of Peel regional police.
A head was found in a Montreal park in July belonging to Jun Lin , who was killed and dismembered in May.
Porn actor Luka Magnotta is accused of murdering and cutting up his lover Lin and posting the body parts to Canadian political parties and schools.
He has pleaded not guilty to murder charges and is in jail awaiting a trial scheduled for early next year.
Since 2007, about a dozen severed feet in shoes have washed up on beaches near Vancouver, along the southern Georgia Strait and off Washington state in separate incidents.
Most of the remains are unidentified, although investigators said at least two of the feet belong to men who were reported missing.
In previous cases, police said it appeared the feet separated from bodies naturally in the water and foul play was not suspected.
