Three tramps in Russia's Urals city of Perm killed an acquaintance, ate his remains and then sold the rest of his body to a nearby kebab house, Russian media have reported.

Police have established that the 25-year-old homeless man was killed by his fellow tramps on November 6. The tramps attacked the man with knives and a hammer. Media reports said one of the tramps suspected the victim of making advances to his girlfriend.

After the murder, which took place in a wooded area in the south of the city, the tramps cut their victim up, buried the upper half of the body, cooked and ate the lower half, and then sold the remains to a nearby kebab house, the news.ru website said, citing local reports.

The Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said police took a sample of the meat from the kebab house in order to verify the claims.

The three suspects are undergoing psychiatric evaluation.

MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti)