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Kate Connolly in Berlin

German-Iraqi woman charged with killing lookalike to fake her own death

Flowers and tributes
Flowers, candles and pictures in Ingolstadt near where Khadidja O’s body was discovered in August 2022. Photograph: Peter Kneffel/dpa

A 23-year-old German-Iraqi woman has been indicted for murder after allegedly seeking out a lookalike on Instagram and killing her with an accomplice, in an effort to fake her own death.

The woman, identified as Shahraban Kh-B, was initially thought to have been the murder victim when the blood-soaked body of a young woman was found last August in a parked Mercedes in Ingolstadt, southern Germany.

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