Tenth woman's body found in South Africa suburb as police probe killings
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File photo of South African Police Service officers in Johannesburg Police in South Africa say that they have discovered another body in a Johannesburg suburb, bringing the number of women found dead there in recent months to ten.
南非警察在约翰内斯堡的档案照片 南非警方表示，他们在约翰内斯堡郊区发现了另一具尸体，使近几个月在那里发现的死亡妇女人数达到十人。
The body was found on Saturday morning and was identified by the friend with whom she had been at a bar the previous evening.
尸体于周六早上被发现，前一天晚上与她一起在酒吧的朋友认出了她的身份。
The local police commissioner said his force could not rule out the possibility that there was a serial killer on the loose, noting similarities across the 10 deaths in Ekurhuleni, as well as another in Soweto.
当地警察局长表示，他的部队不能排除有连环杀手在逃的可能性，并指出埃库胡莱尼的 10 起死亡事件以及索韦托的另一起死亡事件有相似之处。
The deaths have sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against women in the country, which has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world.
这些死亡事件引发了全国范围内对该国针对妇女的暴力行为规模的强烈抗议，该国是世界上性别暴力发生率最高的国家之一。
The latest body was discovered at a cemetery in the Tembisa neighbourhood north-east of central Johannesburg.
最新的尸体是在约翰内斯堡市中心东北部坦比萨附近的一个墓地发现的。
Police issued a statement a short while later saying crime scene investigators were at the scene gathering evidence.
警方不久后发表声明称，犯罪现场调查人员正在现场收集证据。
Officials have yet to publicly identify the victim. The woman's friend told national broadcaster SABC that she recognised her friend's clothes from the previous night when shown a picture of the body.
官员尚未公开受害者的身份。 该女子的朋友告诉国家广播公司 SABC，当她看到尸体的照片时，她认出了她朋友前一天晚上的衣服。
"I don't know what I'm going to say to her children," she said while wiping away tears.
“我不知道要对她的孩子们说什么，”她擦着眼泪说道。
"It's painful." Gauteng Police Commissioner Tommy Mthombeni said that, at this early stage in the investigation, it was too soon to say whether the woman's death was linked to the others.
“很痛苦。” 豪登省警察局长汤米·姆托贝尼表示，在调查的早期阶段，现在判断该女子的死亡是否与其他人有关还为时过早。
He told reporters that the other bodies shared a "similar victimology" that indicated a shared "modus operandi" of killing, which would allow police to determine whether this latest death was linked to the others.
他告诉记者，其他尸体具有“相似的受害者特征”，这表明共同的杀人“作案手法”，这将使警方能够确定这起最新的死亡事件是否与其他死亡事件有关。
"For now, it's not something which we can overrule to say there's a serial killer, but we cannot conclusively indicate as such," Lt Gen Mthombeni said.
姆托贝尼中将说：“目前，我们还不能否认存在连环杀手的说法，但我们无法最终表明这一点。”
South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates, with 5,427 people murdered between April and June this year alone.
南非是凶杀率最高的国家之一，仅今年 4 月至 6 月就有 5,427 人被谋杀。
But it is the nature of the recent killings around Johannesburg that has left many women there reeling from the growing death toll.
但约翰内斯堡最近发生的杀戮事件的性质，让那里的许多妇女因死亡人数不断增加而感到震惊。
The 10 other bodies have been found in similar circumstances to one another since July.
自 7 月以来，其他 10 具尸体被发现时情况都相似。
Most of them were found in Kempton Park, one neighbourhood over from Tembisa. Many of the bodies were those of young women and almost all had suffered extreme violence prior to their deaths.
其中大部分是在距离坦比萨较近的肯普顿公园发现的。 许多尸体都是年轻女性，几乎所有尸体在死前都遭受过极端暴力。
The deaths have increased pressure on the national government less than a year after ministers declared gender-based violence a national disaster.
在部长们宣布基于性别的暴力是全国性灾难不到一年后，这些死亡事件增加了国家政府的压力。
While South African police statistics do not differentiate victims by gender, the South African Human Rights Commission said last week that 569 women were killed and 1,052 others survived attempted murder between April and June this year.
虽然南非警方的统计数据没有按性别区分受害者，但南非人权委员会上周表示，今年 4 月至 6 月期间，有 569 名妇女被杀，另有 1,052 人在未遂谋杀中幸存。
Three men appeared in court earlier this week accused of being involved in one of the nine murders, with police working to track down others who may have been involved.
本周早些时候，三名男子出庭，被指控参与九起谋杀案之一，警方正在努力追查其他可能参与其中的人。
Grim discoveries of murdered women spark fear in South Africa Ninth woman's body found as South African police investigate string of deaths
被谋杀妇女的可怕发现在南非引发恐惧 南非警方调查一系列死亡事件时发现第九具女性尸体
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