The dead body of a young woman has been found close to the spot where a British woman was murdered in a frenzied knife attack in rural France.
Floriane Roux, 31, was reported missing exactly a week ago, before her body was uncovered by a police dog on Monday.
It was hidden in thick undergrowth in the village of Paunat, in the Dordogne department, east of Bordeaux.
This is less than five miles from Trémolot, where Karen Carter, 65 and a mother of four, was stabbed repeatedly before succumbing to her wounds outside her home on 29 April.
The British-South African national had spent a night out with friends, before dying next to her car.
Florian Roux, who was French, had also been planning a night out with friends, before her body was found close to her Vauxhall Corsa.
Both deaths are now being investigated by local prosecutors, supported by judicial police and gendarmes.
An investigating source said on Wednesday: “The body of Floriane Roux was found on Monday, at 4pm. It was in a small shelter, hidden by tall grass and plants and not far from her vehicle, next to the Dordogne River.”
The body was found by a dog, who was one of seven involved in a search organised by gendarmes from Bergerac, said the source.
A doctor pronounced Ms Roux dead at the scene, before police removed her body. Neither the circumstances nor cause of Ms Roux’s death are yet known, and no theory – including the possibility of suicide – is being ruled out, said the source.
According to her her family, Floriane Roux was supposed to meet a friend for the evening on July 23, but the friend claims not to have seen her.
An investigation was opened last week by the Bergerac prosecutor’s office into a “disturbing disappearance.”
Those questioned by police included Ms Roux’s boyfriend, whom she lived with in Montanceix, near Saint-Astier.
Ms Carter had attended a wine tasting hosted by Jean-François Guerrier, her 75-year-old lover, in the hours before her death.
