Cyprus has been left devastated after an army officer confessed to the murder of five migrant women and two girls, in what is believed to be the island’s first serial killing.
Amid the shock, protesters have accused police of failing properly to investigate the victims’ disappearances because of their migrant backgrounds.
Mary Rose Tiburcio, Arian Palanas Lozano and Maricar Valtez Arquiola were all domestic workers from the Philippines. Also among the victims were a woman of Indian or Nepalese descent, a Romanian woman named locally as Livia Bunea, her young daughter Elena and Ms Tiburcio’s daughter, Sierra, 6.
The case has exposed an exploitative system that allows tens of thousands of migrant women to work as housemaids in conditions that critics have described as akin to modern slavery.
TOKYO — A United States Navy sailor and a Japanese woman have been found dead on the Japanese island of Okinawa in what the police are investigating as a murder-suicide.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the sailor, Gabriel A. Olivero of North Carolina, appeared to have fatally stabbed the woman and then killed himself with the same knife.
Mr. Olivero, 32, and the woman, 44, were found by the Okinawa police on Saturday in an apartment in Chatan, a village on the island’s southwestern coast, according to NHK, the public broadcaster, and the local news media. They have not been publicly identified.
Ephraim Joseph Beazley stabbed his ex-partner, Xi Wang, to death while she held onto their young son
WM Doctor murders AF Filipina wife. Only gets 5 years in prison.