Body parts posted to party offices

Police were called shortly after a receptionist opened a blood-soaked box at the headquarters of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s party. The first officers to arrive saw what appeared to be blood stains on the package and immediately called in a special hazardous-material unit.

When the specialists opened the package, police found the severed foot inside.

Police said the package was addressed to the Conservative Party of Canada and not to a specific person. Harper’s office is not located at the party headquarters.

As the investigation developed, Ottawa police said that they had intercepted a second suspicious package containing another human body part.

No details were released about the second find. Ottawa police are consulting with their counterparts in Montreal who discovered a severed torso in a suitcase.