Basel - Austrian airport officials made the "strangest find of the past year" after discovering a man's intestines being taken through customs by a female passenger.
The Moroccan woman was taking her late husband's bowels to Austria to test whether they revealed any signs of poisoning, according to a report on Sunday by local newspaper Kleine Zeitung, and confirmed by an official at the Finance Ministry, which is responsible for imports.
She was carrying his remains in a plastic box under her clothing at Graz airport.
According to the newspaper, the woman's husband had died in a Morocco hospital, and she was convinced that he had been poisoned.
A criminal investigation into the incident would not be "relevant," a police spokesman said.
dpa