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Body believed to be English woman’s found in Chiba apartment 

CHIBA, Japan, March 27  KYODO 

     A body of a young woman was found Monday night in a bathtub placed on the balcony of an apartment in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, the police said.
     The police believe the woman has been murdered and that the body is that of a 22-year-old woman from Britain who worked at a language school.
     The apartment belongs to a Japanese man in his 20s, whom she knew. The bathtub contained a large amount of sand, covering all parts of the body except for part of a hand.
     The man, who has been missing, is being sought by the police.
     The case came to light as another English woman, who lived with the victim, contacted the police Monday afternoon, saying she had not come home and that she could not contact her by mobile phone.
==Kyodo

March 27, 2007　03:45:18