Young Woman Killed in Ciudad Juarez
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An 18-year-old woman was beaten, raped and strangled outside an abandoned house in Ciudad Juarez, a city that has been beset by a string of killings of young women, police said.
Authorities received a call from neighbors who reported that a woman was screaming, Mexican police said. Officers arrested Jose Luis Montes, 26, as he fled the scene, police said.
Mauro Conde, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office of Chihuahua state, said it wasn’t clear whether the suspect could be connected to other crimes.
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