India, Oct. 21 -- A suspected human skull and pieces of vertebral column (backbone) were found near a garbage collection point in Ghaziabad district's Shastri Nagar locality on Tuesday morning, police officials said.

According to police, the material was found in a polythene bag used for packing rice, lying near the roadside collection point. After some locals spotted the bag containing the items, they alerted the police around 9am.

"A team rushed to the spot. Several parts of the vertebral column were found, as well as a skull, which seemed to be of a human. While the vertebral column pieces had some specimen markings, generally found in laboratory specimens, the skull seemed to be of human origin. But we are sending it for laboratory ...