Russia: A couple have been accused of murdering and eating up to 30 people in south-east Russia.

Dmitry Baksheev, 35, and his wife Natalia, 42, were arrested in the southern region of Krasnodar after pictures of dismembered bodies were found on a phone. 

The phone, which contained several images of a man posing with a dismembered female victim, was found on the street in Krasnodar earlier this month.

The remains of a woman were found in a bag in the military academy where Baksheev worked the following day, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported. 

The couple are believed to live in the Military Aviation Academy, owned by the Russian Defence Ministry, where they both work as support staff.

At first Baksheev denied killing the woman, claiming he had found the remains and taking photographs of himself with them before losing the phone but later admitted the murder along with another in 2012. 

His wife reportedly later admitted murdering up to 30 people since 1999, the Daily Mail reported.

The couple reportedly drugged their victims with a substance called Corvalol to subdue them before killing them. Their apartment reportedly smelt of the drug.

Local police reportedly discovered eight frozen body parts and flayed skin in the couple’s home along with 19 remains of human skin and a cache of footage called ‘video lessons for cannibals’ and images.