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月到美国洛杉矶旅游时失踪的21岁温哥华卑大学生蓝可儿失踪案有突破性发展，警方在她入住的酒店天台水箱，发现一具尸体，尽管警方暂未公布死者是否蓝可儿，大批警员正在现场调查，预料稍后会有更多消息公布。
洛杉矶警方在蓝可儿失踪前所在的旅馆里发现了一具尸体，据当地媒体说法，尸体是日前失踪的加拿大温哥华UBC大学华裔女生蓝可儿。
据悉，该旅馆是洛杉矶市中心Main街上的Cecil Hotel，而发现尸体的位置位于旅馆顶部的水箱。
据悉由于该旅馆有住客抱怨水压较低，员工上楼查看，结果于当地时间上午10时左右发现蓝可儿尸体。
该旅馆共有4个水箱，为整个旅馆提供水源。熟悉洛洛杉矶市中心的人士指出，蓝可儿下榻的Cecil旅馆附近有不少流浪汉或吸毒人士聚集，当地人晚上不会前往该区域。网路上的旅馆评价也指出，有住客反映该区感觉很不安全，随时都害怕遭砍或抢劫。
Body
found on roof of downtown Los Angeles hotel where missing Canadian tourist last
seen
By: Shaya Tayefe Mohajer The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—A hotel
maintenance worker investigating complaints of low water pressure found a body
Tuesday on the roof of a downtown hotel where a missing Canadian tourist was
last seen in January, according to Los Angeles police.
Authorities will investigate the
water tanks on the roof of the Cecil Hotel, where the body of a woman in her
20s was found, around 10 a.m., Officer Sara Faden said.
Vancouver resident Elisa Lam
travelled to California alone on Jan. 27 and the 21-year-old was last seen by
workers at the Cecil Hotel on Jan. 31.
Hotel guests complained about low
water pressure at the hotel, and an inspection of the rooftop water tanks
revealed the dead body, Faden said.
Late Tuesday afternoon, officials
were still struggling to remove the body from the water tank to send it to the
coroner’s office — which means it’s too soon to know the victim’s identity with
certainty, Faden said.
“It appears that the location of the water
tanks is very small and configured in a very tight way so it’s a little more
difficult to get the body out,” Faden said.
Investigators will then determine
whether there was foul play or “a very, very strange accident” occurred, Faden
said.
Faden said it’s unclear what
condition the body is in.
Despite the hotel website’s photos
of glamorous parts of greater Los Angeles, including Beverly Hills, the
downtown area it is located in has long struggled against the creeping
destitution of nearby Skid Row, where drug addiction and homelessness is
rampant.
A call to the hotel seeking comment
was not immediately returned.
At the time of Lam’s disappearance,
Los Angeles police alerted the public that her disappearance appeared
suspicious and may suggest foul play.
Her final destination in California
was Santa Cruz, about 560 kilometres north of Los Angeles, and officials said
she tended to use public transportation. Lam had been in touch with her family
daily until she disappeared.
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