Massive hunt for missing Berlin girl enters third day, no body found
By DW
10 March 2019 |
4:50 pm
A hundred police officers and a team of sniffer dogs have been searching for the body of a 15-year-old girl from Berlin. The girl's brother-in-law has been arrested in connection with her death.
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