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Your support makes all the difference.Police in Brazil have found the dismembered remains of a 17-year-old British girl inside a suitcase, officials said today.
Lenita Alves de Brito, a spokeswoman for the Goias state police, said officers found body parts belonging Cara Marie Burke on Monday in the state capital of Goiania.
Police today arrested Burke's boyfriend, Dioli Mohammed, as a suspect, Brito said. Mohammed is a British citizen of Turkish descent.
Brito said Burke and Mohammed came to Brazil together on tourism visas about three months ago.
Karine Neves, a spokeswoman for the British Embassy in Brasilia, did not immediately have more information about what Burke was doing in Brazil or how long she had been in the country.
Neves said a British vice consul is in Goiania, tracking the case and the police investigation.
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