Rufina Morales de Ayma, cousin of Bolivian president Evo Morales was murdered and mutilated in the city of Coachabamba, police officials informed today.

"The body of the victim, 73, was found in a gully close to a town called Santivánez. President's cousin had been missed for the past eight days. The corpse was chopped into pieces according to a Bolivian newspaper.

The tabloid also mentioned that the corpse, in a state of rotting, was discovered by local villagers and surprised forensic to Discovery that the heart, ribs, neck, teeth and entrails were missing. The only things that remained untouched were the head and pelvis.

Police investigation aims to a situation of robbery where the victim is throw down a precipite where then was attacked by wild dogs.

"The body was devoured by street dogs that live in the area', Cochabamba's city Police Department informed reporters.

Rufina Morales had left her home eight days ago to cash out an elderly bonus that Bolivian government pays to those who are 60 or older.