LAHORE: A court on Wednesday sentenced two brothers to 11 years in jail for eating a dead baby in a case that has shocked the country, a year after they were freed over a similar offence.

Farman Ali and his brother Mohammad Arif were arrested in April this year after police discovered the head of a two-day-old child at their home.

The child`s corpse had been stolen from a graveyard in the brothers` home village of Darya Khan.

The pair, who are in their late 30s, had prepared and eaten a curry from the child`s remains, police said.

They had previously been arrested for eating human corpses in the same village in 2011 and had served two years in prison.-AFP