MOSCOW, September 10, 2008 (AFP) - Eight suspected satanists have been arrested in western Russia for allegedly stabbing to death and eating the body parts of four local teenagers, a popular Russian tabloid reported on Wednesday.

The four victims were lured one by one to a country cottage in the region of Yaroslavl on the Volga River, where they were stabbed '666 times' each as part of a satanist ritual, the daily said, quoting investigators.

The victims were allegedly forced to get drunk before being stabbed and dismembered. Their killers then allegedly lit a bonfire under a tree near the cottage where they cooked and ate their victims' body parts, the report said.

Hair from the victims was apparently found in the embers of the bonfire and the report also quoted interrogations with the suspects and said police had intercepted their phone calls following the killings.

The victims -- three girls and one boy -- were all aged between 16 and 17 and belonged to local 'goth circles,' a subculture that is very popular in provincial Russia, Komsomolskaya Pravda said.