Police in Cyprus are investigating the actions of a possible serial killer after two women were found murdered and dumped in a mine shaft and a third, a six-year-old child, is still missing.
The victims were discovered in the space of a week at an abandoned mine about 30 kilometres west of the capital Nicosia.
One woman has been identified as a 39-year-old from the Philippines who disappeared in May, 2018 along with her six-year-old daughter.
A second victim, found late on Saturday, and is thought to be a 28-year-old from the Philippines who was also reported missing last year, though has not been definitively identified.
A 35-year old officer of the National Guard admitted that he killed a 38-year old woman, her 6-year old daughter, and another woman.
The Police found the body of the 38-year old mother, whose name was Mary Rose, inside a 125-meter long drain in the Mitsero area near Nicosia.
But the Police found another dead woman’s body in the same location and fear that deeper inside that drain, more corpses could be found. Both women had worked in Cyprus, which has a sizeable Filipino population.
There was an intensive search at the mine shaft, which is submerged in water, and at a reservoir in the area on Monday morning.
Police chief Zacharias Chrysostomou told reporters that the crime is unprecedented for Cyprus.
In court hearings, police said the army officer was suspected of having approached the women on an online dating site.
