Search teams in Cyprus located two suitcases at the bottom of a lake where a detained military officer who allegedly confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls told investigators he dumped some of the bodies, officials said Saturday.
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Search teams in Cyprus located two suitcases at the bottom of a lake where a detained military officer who allegedly confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls told investigators he dumped some of the bodies, officials said Saturday.
Officers spotted the possible evidence with a robotic camera that will be used to keep scouring the man-man lake for a third suitcase suspected to be under water, Fire Service Chief Marcos Trangolas said.
The suspect, a 35-year-old National Guard captain, said under questioning he put the bodies of three victims inside luggage that he ditched in the lake, a police official told The Associated Press.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose details of an ongoing investigation.
The lake, located some 20 miles west of Cyprus’ capital of Nicosia, is part of an abandoned copper pyrite mine where a woman’s body was found in a flooded shaft on April 14.
The discovery triggered a homicide investigation that led to the captain’s arrest before a second woman’s body was found in the mineshaft on April 20.
