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‘Women are terrified’: Ninth body found as South African police probe series of killings The body of a ninth woman has been found in the space of just two months in an area east of South Africa’s largest city, stoking fears in a country already facing dire levels of violence against women. The latest body was found Thursday morning in Dawn Park, Ekurhuleni, a region of Johannesburg. Some of the cases have similarities, but investigators do not yet know whether all nine deaths are linked or whether a serial killer could be involved. “Women are terrified,” Sabrina Walter, founder of Women For Change, a South African nonprofit that campaigns against gender-based violence and femicide, told CNN. “Women here have been changing how we live for years just to survive,” she said. “What is happening in Ekurhuleni has intensified that fear.”

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