Police in the south of France shot and killed a local resident who is suspected of killing and beheading a 13-year-old teenager, RIA Novosti reported, citing BFM TV.

Law enforcers tracked down the alleged killer during the search for a child who escaped from home in Marseille. Thanks to reports from neighbors, his headless body was found on Monday night in a sack in one of the houses of Tarascon (department of Bouches-du-Rhône). Later, a child's head was found in a bucket in the bathroom.