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Police divers discovered a small body at the bottom of an artificial lake near Mitsero, Cyprus. The authorities believe that it is the remains of a six-year-old girl, victim of a series of serial murders allegedly perpetrated by a captain of the Cypriot army .
Police believe that it is the seventh and last body that the 35-year-old man has confessed to having killed over a period of two and a half years.
An official who spoke to the Associated Press said the body was tied to a cement block with a rope.
The self-confessed serial killer is the first time that a series of murders have been committed in Cyprus.
Police Chief Kypros Michaelides, who was present when the body was raised, said it was the first time in 42 years of working in the police force that he saw such brutality.
The suspect in custody confessed to murdering five women and two children, all foreigners. The authorities estimate that the victims include women from the Philippines, Romania and Nepal. Employed as servants, they disappeared between September 2016 and August 2018.
Forsensic's experts identified five of the bodies and examined 465 pieces of evidence. The first body, Philippina Mary Rose Tiburcio, aged 30, was found on 14 April.
At least some of the victims had met the alleged killer on an online dating site.
The police are looking for anyone who was in contact with a man who called himself "Orestes". Two of the victims had an account on the dating site.
According to the Cyprus Mail, the English-language newspaper on the island, the suspect appeared in a Nicosia district court last week without a lawyer. Police investigator Ioannis Yiorkadjis went to court to discuss the progress of the investigation. The suspect was remanded again for 48 days before the charges were laid.
The suspect is expected to be charged next Friday with multiple murders, kidnappings, rapes, kidnappings, indecent badault, obstruction of justice and attempted destruction of evidence.
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