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Sami Quadri

Woman ‘killed Instagram lookalike to try and fake her own death’ in ‘doppelganger murder’

The body identified by family as 23-year-old German-Iraqi woman was later found to be Algerian blogger

(Picture: PA Wire)

A woman tracked down a lookalike on Instagram and murdered her with a friend in order to fake her own death, German prosecutors believe.

Reports initially identified Sharaban K, 23, as the victim after the blood-covered body of a young woman was found in a parked Mercedes in Ingolstadt last August.

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