Around 40 graves, mostly of children, were found dug up and had body parts missing from them in two places in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, prompting Governor Ishrat-ul-Ebad to order a high-level inquiry into the incident.
The graves from where the body parts were stolen were situated in Gadap town and Sohrab Goth area.
The incident came to light when people went to the graveyards to pray for their deceased on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha on Monday, police said.
"Normally people go to graveyards on Eid to pray for their departed ones and that is when many of them complained about the graves of their loved ones mostly children being dug up," senior police official Mukhtar Kashkeli said.
He said the police had started investigations and detained some people.
Body parts and bones from bodies of children were stolen from many of the graves that were dug up, the police official said.
The provincial Governor ordered a high-level inquiry into the incident, which came close on the heels of a notorious case where a man was arrested recently in Karachi for digging up graves and defiling bodies of around 25 women.
The arrested man confessed to having dug up several graves in different graveyards in the city.