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Pakistanis detained over rape, murder in Malaysia

IANS | By, Kuala Lumpur
Aug 06, 2007 09:26 AM IST

Malaysian police have detained three Pakistani men believed to be involved in the rape and murder of a 20-year-old university student, reports said on Monday.

Malaysian police have detained three Pakistani men believed to be involved in the rape and murder of a 20-year-old university student, reports said on Monday.

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The three men, aged between 26 and 45, were detained during a predawn raid on Sunday at a house close to the victim's home in the central Selangor state, district police chief Rosli Mohamad Nizam was quoted as saying by the Star daily.

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The victim was found dead on Thursday on her bed, wearing only a T-shirt with her hands bound behind her back. Police confirmed that she had been raped and then suffocated.

The woman, said to have been a top scholar, was living in the shared home with several other students, reports said.

The three foreign workers, one of whom works as a security guard, were placed under remand for 14 days to assist in the investigation.

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