Limbs of dismembered girl found

Brazilian authorities said they had recovered body parts of a murdered British teenager beside a remote river near the central city of Goiania.

The arms and leg of Cara Burke have been found in Brazil

A labourer walking in the area found a leg belonging to 17-year-old Cara Burke on Sunday, a week after her torso was discovered in a suitcase near a different river.

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Police searching in the same area found her forearms and head.

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Inspector Carlos Raimundo Batista said he was confident the body parts were Cara's.

Police say Mohammed D'Ali Carvalho dos Santos, 20, killed Cara, from Southfields, south-west London, because she threatened to tell his family that he was addicted to cocaine and dealing the drug.

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Santos has told police he does not remember most of what happened the night Cara died because he was high on cocaine.

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