Schoolboy finds severed fingers in jar

A FRENCH schoolboy has found a jar containing human fingers preserved in alcohol which police believe may belong to a local carpenter who lost four digits in an accident 30 years ago.

The boy, aged seven, made the discovery on Monday when he was playing behind the gymnasium of his school in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris, and noticed a jar poking out of the ground.

“With time the jar must have risen to the surface and the fingers were found in well-preserved condition,” a police spokeswoman said.

Following local media reports, police received a telephone call from a person whose grandfather, a woodworker, lived near the gymnasium.

The carpenter, who is still alive, has since moved away, and police are trying to contact him.