A forensic vehicle transporting the body of a woman found inside a water tank, leaves the Nueva Castilla Motel, near the place where Debanhi Escobar, an 18-year old student, has been missing since April 9, in Escobedo, Mexico April 22, 2022. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) -The body of a Mexican teenager who went missing this month in the northern state of Nuevo Leon has been found submerged in a cistern inside the grounds of a motel near where she was last seen alive, according to her father.
Debanhi Escobar, a 18-year-old law student, vanished on April 9, amid a spate of disappearances of women in Nuevo Leon's capital Monterrey that has sparked protests and intensified international scrutiny of gender violence in Mexico.
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