NICOSIA, Cyprus — The justice minister in Cyprus resigned Thursday amid mounting criticism that police bungled their investigations when some of the seven foreign women and girls slain by a serial killer were initially reported missing. Even as the minister resigned, police on Thursday kept searching a lake and a reservoir for the bodies of three of the victims. Other victims are believed to be a woman from Nepal and a Romanian woman and her eight-year-old daughter. Critics say Cypriot police did little to investigate the disappearances of the women because they were low-status foreign workers. Only one victim, 38-year-old Mary Rose Tiburcio from the Philippines, has been positively identified in the case so far.

Source: National Post May 02, 2019 09:41 UTC