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Tenth woman's body found in South Africa suburb as police probe killings

The deaths have sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against women in the country.

BBC World•

Police in South Africa say that they have found a woman's body in a Johannesburg suburb, the tenth in recent months.

The body was found on Saturday morning and identified by the friend with whom she had been at a bar the previous evening.

The local police commissioner said his force could not rule out the possibility that there was a serial killer on the loose, noting similarities across the 10 deaths in Ekurhuleni, as well as another in Soweto.

He told reporters that the other bodies shared a "similar victimology" that indicated a shared "modus operandi" of killing, which would allow police to determine whether this latest death was linked to the others.