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		</div><p><span style="color: #473636;"><strong>Captain Nicos Metaxas has been dubbed &#8216;the island&#8217;s first serial killer&#8217;</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #473636;"><strong>The 35-year-old soldier appeared in court Sunday as police dredged the remains of a body stuffed in a suitcase, from a lake in Nicosia</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #473636;"><strong>Local media have reported the body is that of a child</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #473636;"><strong>Metaxas has confessed to the murder of five women and two of their daughters</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #473636;"><strong>He has not yet been formally charged over their murders </strong></span></p>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone wp-image-318475" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Nicos-Metaxas-1-300x186.png" alt="" width="647" height="401" /><strong style="font-size: 1em;">Nicos Metaxas, [photo], the alleged &#8216;first serial killer of Cyprus&#8217;, appeared in court today after confessing killing five women and two girls in a three year span</strong></h6>
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<div>A Cypriot army officer who has allegedly confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls in three years appeared in court today as police say they have recovered a fifth body.<br />
Captain Nicos Metaxas, 35, &#8216;the island&#8217;s first serial killer&#8217; has not yet been formally charged over the murders of five women and two of their daughters.<br />
But police have today retrieved a suitcase containing the remains of a human body at a lake southwest of Nicosia, the second such find in a week.</div>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong style="font-size: 1em;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-318485" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Police-in-Cyprus-find-remains-of-one-of-Nicos-Metaxas-victims-2-300x206.jpg" alt="" width="670" height="460" />Police in Cyprus find body of serial killer&#8217;s fifth victim &#8211; <strong>A child seems to be the body that was detected and recovered in the afternoon of Sunday from Lake Red to Mitzero in Nicosia, Cyprus </strong></strong></div>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong style="font-size: 1em;"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-318478" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Police-in-Cyprus-find-remains-of-one-of-Nicos-Metaxas-victims-1-300x284.png" alt="" width="650" height="615" />Metaxas made his court appearance came as police reportedly found a suitcase containing the remains of a human body, believed to be that of a child</strong></strong></div>
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<p class="imageCaption">Police said a post-mortem would be carried out on the body which is in an &#8216;advanced state of decomposition&#8217;.<br />
The body found today is believed to be that of a child, according to local newspaper <a class="class" href="http://www.philenews.com/koinonia/eidiseis/article/696746/sto-nekrotomeio-i-defteri-soros-tis-kokkinis-limnis" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Phileleftheros</a>.<br />
Metaxas has allegedly confessed to the murder of five women, alongside daughters of two of the women &#8211; a six-year-old Filipina and a Romanian girl.<br />
The killings came to light in mid-April when unusually heavy rains brought the body of 38-year-old Filipina Mary Rose Tiburcio to the surface of a disused mine shaft where it had been dumped.</p>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone wp-image-318482" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Mary-Rose-Tiburcio-left-and-her-six-year-old-daughter-Sierra-Tiburcio-300x159.png" alt="" width="621" height="329" /><strong>Investigations kicked off after the body of </strong><strong style="font-size: 1em;">Mary Rose Tiburcio, [left], was discovered on April 14 at a disused mine-shaft. Her six-year-old daughter Sierra [left], is also feared dead</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The discovery triggered a murder investigation which led to the arrest of Nicos Metaxas on April 18.<br />
Days later, authorities found the body of a second woman in the shaft, believed to be Arian Palanas Lozano, 28, also from the Philippines.<br />
These are the only two women to be officially identified.<br />
The suspect then guided investigators to a well near an army firing range outside the capital, where police found the body of a third victim &#8211; a woman thought to be from Nepal.<br />
Police last Sunday recovered the remains of a fourth victim, stuffed in a suitcase at the bottom of the lake at Mitsero.</p>
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<div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong style="font-size: 1em;"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-318488" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/The-travel-bag-with-human-body-in-a-state-of-disintegration-was-found-in-the-Red-Lake-in-Mitsero-Nikosia-Cyprus-1-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="669" height="444" />A travel bag with human body in a state of disintegration was found in the Red Lake in Mitsero, police in Cyprus said on Sunday.</strong></strong></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">At court today, Metaxas was accused by police of raping a teenager who filed a complaint against the army officer.<br />
Neophytos Shailos, head of Nicosia&#8217;s Criminal Investigation Department, told the Nicosia district court a Flipina woman, 19, made the allegations which Metaxas denied when questioned.<br />
Shailos told the court the young woman made contact with the army officer online in 2016 when she replied to a modelling job for a photo shoot.<br />
Metaxas appeared in court without a lawyer and told the judge he had &#8216;no objections&#8217; to being remanded.<br />
Police say they have received a &#8216;deluge of information&#8217; about the suspect&#8217;s activities with 350 witness statements taken and another 150 to be processed.</p>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone wp-image-318484" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Protesters-demonstrate-in-support-of-the-victims-killed-by-Nicos-Metaxas-3-300x196.png" alt="" width="608" height="395" /><strong style="font-size: 1em;">Protesters have held banners and candles as they demonstrate in support of the victims &#8211; Many Cypriots have accused the police of failing to investigate the disappearances of the foreign</strong> women<strong style="font-size: 1em;"> because of their institutional racism </strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Cypriot authorities have been accused of failing to properly investigate the women&#8217;s disappearances due to neglect and racism.<br />
President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday fired top police officer Zacharias Chrysostomou a day after Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou announced his resignation over the case.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Authorities have acknowledged that all the women and girls that the army officer has admitted to killing were reported missing to police, except the one from Nepal who was reported to immigration for being absent from her place of employment.<br />
The police said today they would continue to look for a third suitcase the suspect allegedly confessed to dumping in the lake.<br />
Authorities said they were able to locate the second suitcase by using sophisticated equipment including a robotic camera flown in from the United States.<br />
&#8216;We will persist in our efforts, conducting different kinds of tests in the area and elsewhere at a later stage,&#8217; said Angelides.<br />
He said police were still assessing data found on electronic equipment belonging to the suspect.<br />
Metaxas has been remanded in custody for a further eight days.</p>
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