TEHRAN Police in northeast Iran have found the body of a woman strangled with her headscarf, the latest victim of an apparent serial killer stalking the holy city of Mashhad.

The Tuesday edition of **** Khorasan **** newspaper said that this discovery brought to 12 the killer's known victims since last July when the string of murders began.

Judiciary officials said one woman thought originally to have been one of the killer's victims had in fact died of a drug overdose and another woman had been murdered by a youth attempting to rob her house.

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