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Spain: US woman killed, body chopped up
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By Daniel Woolls, The Associated Press
MADRID - Spanish police say a U.S. woman who lived in southern Seville has been killed and her body cut up into pieces and thrown into a river. A National Police official says a 30-year-old Spanish man who knew the victim has been arrested. The nature of their relationship and a possible motive for the killing were not immediately known.
The 49-year-old mother of one was reported missing over the weekend. The official said Wednesday that police searching the Guadalquivir River over the last two days found a bag containing the woman's head and one of her arms and a suitcase with the rest of her body. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with department rules. The U.S. Embassy said it had no information on the case.
