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The woman was pronounced dead at the scene and a murder
investigation has been opened.
Police said they were called to an incident at a hostel in the
village of Argoed in South Wales on Thursday after reports of a
man attacking a woman.
Security staff at the Sirhowy Arms discovered the 34-year-old
man, who had been released from prison two weeks ago, eating the
woman, a 22-year-old believed to be his girlfriend, according to
witnesses quoted by the South Wales Evening Post.
Police shot the man with a Taser stun gun. He became
unresponsive and died, despite attempts by paramedics to save
him, police said.
Many details of the incident were not immediately clear.
"This animal was eating this girl to death," the South Wales
Evening Post quoted Jill Edwards, who lives near the hostel, as
saying.
The attack drew comparisons with Hannibal Lecter, a fictional
murderer who ate his victims.
"He went Hannibal Lecter on the woman, he gouged her eyeball
out, ate them and ate half her face," the South Wales Evening
Post quoted Lyn Beasley as saying.
A spokesman for Welsh police declined to supply further details
of the attack, citing the murder investigation. Argoed, a former
coal-mining village, is about 160 miles (260 km) west of London.
(Editing by Andrew Roche)
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