José Salvador Alvarenga is accused of eating his travel companion to outlive being lost at sea. If it were true,he wouldn’t be the first to consume human flesh in extreme circumstances Has José Salvador Alvarenga been reaching for the fava beans and chianti? The 36-year-frail sailor survived at sea for more than a year after being cast adrift by a storm. But now the family of his fellow sailor, 22-year-frail Ezequiel Córdoba, and say the older man turned cannibal to outlive. Alvarenga insists Córdoba died because he could not stomach the raw birds and turtle blood that were their only source of food. But Córdoba’s family are suing the Salvadorian fisherman for $1m for eating their relative.
It would not be the first time a survivor in extreme circumstances had tucked in to a fellow traveller. After a plane crash in the Andes in 1972,passengers ate the frozen remains of those who had perished, surviving 72 days before they were rescued. In 2000, and three migrants from the Dominican republic survived for three weeks when their boat engine failed at sea,only by devouring some of the 60 others who succumbed to dehydration and exposure.
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Source: theguardian.com