Investigators digging up the Brussels home of a pastor suspected of murdering six relatives turned up bones believed to be from a human hand yesterday, a television station reported.
Police did not confirm the report on the private RTL-TVI station.
The week-long search of one of the three houses belonging to Hungarian-born pastor, Mr Andras Pandy, has already uncovered fragments of a skull, a right thigh bone, an arm and toe and finger joints, as well as shreds of underclothes.
Today, the investigation is to switch to a second property owned by Mr Pandy, who is charged with killing two former wives and four of his children who disappeared between 1986 and 1989.
The second home, also in Brussels, has six cellars. To speed up the search, investigators are planning to bring in dogs and a radar device of the same type as that used in the search of the home of serial killers Frederick and Rosemary West in Gloucester, in England.
Mr Pandy (71), denies the charges against him and has refused to say much to police since his arrest 10 days ago.
"He says nothing or denies everything, complains of having a headache or asks to see his lawyers," said Mr Berangere Haegemann, of the Brussel's prosecutors office.
Belgian police, fearing he may have had more victims, are looking again at the files of missing persons dating from the late 1980s. Investigators hunting a serial killer in Mons, in southern Belgium, have also visited Mr Pandy's house.
A parallel investigation is underway in Hungary where the pastor made regular visits. A house he owns in Dunakeszi, north of Budapest, has been searched but nothing found there.
Police suspect he had accomplices in Hungary who posed as his missing children, writing false letters in their names to give the impression they were still alive.
They are also trying to trace Hungarian women who responded to classified advertisements by Pandy as he searched for a third wife in the early 1990s.
Hungarian police will reopen the files of around 60 missing persons today.