Police in Cyprus have launched an investigation into an army officer who is believed to have confessed to killing seven women and girls on the island, all of them foreign migrants.
Police divers retrieved a suitcase containing the decomposing remains of a woman from the bottom of a lake in Cyprus on Sunday, 28 April.
The suitcase was weighed down by a concrete block, the chief of Cyprus' Criminal Investigation Department said. A Greek Cypriot army officer, named locally as Nicos Metaxas, has reportedly admitted killing seven people.
Last week two women were found murdered and dumped in a mineshaft. The women are believed to be Mary Rose Tiburcio, 38, and Arian Palanas Lozano, 28, both from the Philippines. Tiburcio's six-year-old daughter Sierra is still missing.
Investigators say Tiburcio and the suspect had a relationship for two months before she went missing in May 2018. They reportedly met on a dating website.
Metaxas, a 35-year-old army captain, has reportedly told detectives he dumped three of his victims into the toxic lake, which is part of a defunct copper mine 20 miles west of the island's capital, Nicosia.
Police believe the victims are Maricar Valtez Arquiola, 31, from the Philippines, Florentina Bunea, 36, from Romania and her eight-year-old daughter Elena Natalia.
Arquiola has been missing since December 2017, while the mother and daughter vanished in September 2016.
The chief of the Criminal…
