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Police say British teen was murdered in Goa Monday 10 Mar, 2008 Police in the popular Indian resort state of Goa have launched a murder investigation and arrested three local men after the partially naked body of a British teenager was found last month on a beach. The announcement came after doctors conducted a fresh autopsy and concluded that 15-year-old Scarlette Keeling was murdered, and did not drown as local police had initially insisted. We are investigating it as a murder case, senior Goa state police official Kishan Kumar told reporters yesterday, the morning after a panel of three doctors conducted a six-hour examination of the body. There will be detentions now, he added, without providing details, although sources say the owner of a cafe on popular Anjuna beach where Keeling was last seen alive is likely to be questioned. But Kumar denied allegations by Fiona MacKeown, Keelings mother, that police had tried to hush-up the murder. Police never failed in their duty. They were right on the track, Kumar said. MacKeown pointed to the large numbers of bruises on her daughters body to bolster her call for a second examination after an earlier autopsy concluded the girl drowned in the Arabian Sea. The first autopsy found only five bruises on Keelings body, but Saturdays examination discovered as many as 50, with many of them believed to have been inflicted before she died. The family suspects Keeling may have been sexually assaulted before she died. URL to article: http://www.7days.ae/en/2008/03/10/police-say-british-teen-was-murdered-in-goa.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping