Mexican police find body of missing 18-year-old woman in motel water tank

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The haunting story of a young woman left on the side of a highway late at night in northern Mexico has ended in sorrow after her decomposing body was found in an underground water tank at a motel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia on Friday said that the woman’s body — apparently unrecognisable after what may have been nearly two weeks in the water — had a crucifix necklace and clothing that Debanhi Escobar&comma; 18&comma; was wearing the night she disappeared&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite what authorities in the border state of Nuevo Leon described as a massive search for her&comma; the young woman’s body was found by local people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The alert was sounded by hotel workers&comma; because of the fetid odours coming from the area&comma;” Mr Mejia said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>State prosecutors later confirmed the body belonged to Ms Escobar&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Escobar’s case made headlines because of a haunting photo taken by a driver who was supposed to take her home that night&period; It was not clear why she got out of the car&comma; but her father&comma; Mario Escobar&comma; said prosecutors told him that surveillance camera footage suggested the driver inappropriately touched his daughter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Escobar said that while the driver may not have killed her&comma; he was responsible for his daughter’s death&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The driver&comma; who worked for a taxi app&comma; took the photo to show Ms Debanhi got out of his car alive on April 8 on the outskirts of Monterrey&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 18-year-old was not seen again until late on Thursday when her body was pulled from a 13&period;1ft &lpar;four metres&rpar; deep water water tank at a roadside motel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Killings of women have increased in recent years in Mexico&comma; rising from 977 cases in 2020 to 1&comma;015 in 2021&period; And those were just cases classified as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;feminicides” – a legal term used in Mexico when women are killed because of their gender&period; Killings of women overall are much higher&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Disappearances of women are also high&comma; with about 1&comma;600 reported missing so far this year&period; Officials say 829 of them are still listed as missing and 16 were found dead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During the week authorities were searching for Ms Escobar&comma; local media reported that the bodies of five other women and girls had been found in the state&period; 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