Murder probe launched into London student's death

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British police have opened a murder investigation after the body of a young Norwegian woman studying in London was found in the garbarge room of a fashionable apartment building. Police confirmed Monday that the woman is a student who disappeared late last week.

When her friends headed home from the club at around 2:30am, Magnussen stayed, and was believed to have planned to go to a late-night party (called a nachspiel, in Norwegian). She was reportedly accompanied by at least one of three Arab men whom Magnussen and her other friends had partied with earlier.

Police reportedly believe she was killed in a flat in the building on Great Portland Street, and that her body was then taken down to the cellar to hide it. The London newspaper Daily Mail reported that the flat is rented by three men from the Middle East and that they are now at the center of the police investigation.

Aftenposten >>> Murder probe launched into London students death


Martine Vik Magnussen of Asker was found dead in
the cellar of a fashionable London apartment building

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A young Norwegian woman found murdered in London over the weekend was probably strangled, according to a preliminary autopsy report. Police have launched an international search for the man she partied with at a nightclub, the son of a wealthy Egyptian businessman...

Aftenposten >>> Norwegian student probably strangled, Egyptian sought


Martine Vik Magnussen has been described as a
thoughtful and charming young woman who hoped to
base a career on business and fashion.

Regent's College in London, where Vik Magnussen
started studying last year.

Friends sent out messages on mobile phones over
the weekend, first as they tried to locate the missing
Vik Magnussen, and then to report her death.