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Alejandra Salazar, a trans woman who went missing around one week ago, has been found dead by authorities, strangled to death in her apartment with a paper bag over her head.
The days-long search for Salazar, 54, in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Balvanera, Argentina, seized the local community. But neighbours reported fetid smells from an apartment complex on 2200 Corriented Avenue.
Buenos Aires City Police said, according to the
Diario De Cuyo online news outlet, that the building’s administrator had not seen the victim for once week.
Officers found the naked body of Salazar, her head lying on the floor by her bed, they said, with sex toys scattering the floor. They added that initial reports estimate the date of death to around seven to 10 days ago.