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(26 Apr 2019) Hundreds of people attended a vigil in Cyprus' capital Nicosia after a detained military officer confessed to killing five foreign women and two girls.
It comes as police intensified their search to find more bodies, possibly dumped at a firing range, a reservoir and a man-made lake near an abandoned mine 32 kilometres (20 miles) west of Nicosia, the capital.
On Thursday, the 35-year-old suspect, who can't yet be named because he hasn't been formally charged, told investigators that he had killed four more people than he had previously admitted to.
The victims - all foreigners - include Marry Rose Tiburcio, 38, from the Philippines, whose bound body was found April 14 in a flooded mineshaft.
She and her six-year-old daughter had been missing since May of last year.
The girl remains missing and authorities believe she was also slain by the suspect.
Divers have entered the reservoir to search for her but have not found her body yet.
Authorities tracked down the officer last week by scouring Tiburcio's online messages.
Six days later, police discovered another body April 20 in the same mineshaft, identified by Cypriot media as 28-year-old Arian Palanas Lozano, also from the Philippines.
A third alleged victim, also of Filipino descent, is 31-year-old Maricar Valtez Arquiola, who had been missing since December 2017.
The suspect initially denied killing Arquiola but reversed himself after a court hearing Thursday, a police official said.
The suspect on Thursday also pointed investigators to a military firing range, where they discovered another unidentified body, which according to the suspect belongs to a woman of either Nepalese or Indian descent.
Cypriot police are also looking for a Romanian mother and daughter.
Cypriot media identified them as Livia Florentina Bunea, 36, and eight-year-old Elena Natalia Bunea, who are believed to have been missing since September 2016.
At the vigil, chairperson of the Federation of Filipino Organisations in Cyprus Ester Beatty said that the small Filipino community on the island is in mourning.
"It's really difficult for us to accept what has happened, what is still going on, we still need a lot of answers to what has happened," Beatty said.
Police said the suspect is expected to appear in court Saturday for another custody hearing.

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