{"id":20607,"date":"2012-06-29T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=20607"},"modified":"2012-06-29T18:42:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T15:42:36","slug":"belgian-female-tourist-23-found-beheaded-in-himalayas-20607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/belgian-female-tourist-23-found-beheaded-in-himalayas-20607\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Female tourist Debbie Maveau, 23, found beheaded in Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/belgian-girl-death-in-Nepal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20616\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/belgian-girl-death-in-Nepal-e1340983291176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>The Belgian&#8217;s death in Langtan National Park, on the border with Tibet, is the latest in a string of assaults and disappearances of young women in Nepal\u2019s Himalayan national parks.<\/h1>\n<p>The US Embassy has now issued a warning against women trekking solo in the region.\u00a0Local inspector Bhakta Sunuwar said police had no leads on the culprit and were trying to establish if Debbie Maveau\u00a0had been killed by someone she met before the trek.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cHer head was around 13 inches from the rest of her body.\u00a0\u201cPeople are not cooperating with the investigation. Everyone in the area says they have not seen her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that she had travelled to Dhunche from Kathmandu by bus but none of the drivers in the area confirmed that they had seen her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nepalese police have launched a murder investigation following the discovery of the body on June 14 when local villagers tipped off authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Insp Sunuwar said robbery and rape were unlikely motives since her underwear had not been removed and her camera and 8,000 rupees (\u00a390) in cash were not taken.<\/p>\n<p>American Lena Sessions, 23, was hiking solo in December in Langtang when she was threatened with sexual assault by a masked man with a knife, but managed to escape.<\/p>\n<p>The incident came a week after a South Korean woman was assaulted nearby.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belgian&#8217;s death in Langtan National Park, on the border with Tibet, is the latest in a string of assaults and disappearances of young women in Nepal\u2019s Himalayan national parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[26416,26422,26423,26424,26425,26413,26414,26417,26421,3005,23900,26419,26420],"class_list":["post-20607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-american-female-tourist","tag-american-lena-sessions","tag-belgian-female-tourist","tag-debbie-maveau","tag-debbie-maveau-death","tag-himalaya","tag-himalayan-national-park","tag-kathmandu","tag-lena-sessions","tag-nepal","tag-nepal-travel-ban","tag-us-embassy","tag-us-embassy-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}