A CANNIBAL killer nicknamed Metal Fang has reportedly escaped a mental asylum to murder again.
Crazed Nickolay Dzhumagaliev , 63, was jailed in 1981 after admitting to killing and eating his victims.
Police believe he murdered at least ten women before he was caught.
Now concern is growing after reports that the killer - whose gruesome nickname comes from his metal teeth - has been on the loose since escaping from a secure hospital on December 23.
Terrified residents in Almaty, Kazakhstan, claim to have seen him shortly after the reported break-out.
The killer is already being blamed for the disappearance of 22-year-old Saida Akzhanova, who has not been seen since New Year's Eve.
Local police have refused to confirm the cannibal's escape. A spokesman said: "We do not have information about the escape of the man and have no orders to catch him. This information is confusing."
Dzhumagaliev is one of the world's most notorious cannibal killers.
In a chilling confession to his first murder he said: "I always loved to hunt, often went hunting, but this was my first time hunting a woman.
He added: "She resisted, and then I cut her throat with a knife. Then I drank her blood."
The killer continued: "I cut the corpse's breast into strips, removed the ovaries, and separated the pelvis and hips. I then folded these pieces into a backpack and carried them home.
"I melted the fat to fry with, and some parts I pickled.
"Once I put the parts through a meat grinder and made dumplings.
"I saved the meat for myself; I never served it to anyone else.
"Twice I grilled the heart and the kidneys. Grilled meat, too. But it was tough, and I cooked it for a long time in its own fat.
"The meat of this woman took me a month to eat."
Dzhumagaliev escaped before while he was being transported from one secure hospital to another in 1989.
He was on the run for two years before being recaptured.
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