12 corpses found near Mexican border belong to young women and girls as police fear copycat serial killings

Forensics tests have confirmed that 12 sets of skeletal remains found near the U.S. border are those of girls and women, authorities announced on Monday, fueling fears that young women in the Ciudad Juarez area may once again the targets of serial slayings.

The sets of bones were found in January and February in fields in the Juarez valley, east of Ciudad Juarez, and experts have discovered an alarming similarity in the victims' ages. Of those for whom identities have been established, two were 15 years old, one was 16, two were 17 and one 19.

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