POLICE CAR PARKED NEAR THE SCENE WHERE DISMEMBERED BODY WAS FOUND, 1999-12-25 (photo)

A police car is parked in front of the Albert railway station, a few hundred meters from the scene where the dismembered body of a young woman was found, Northern France December 25. The dismembered body of a young woman was found on Saturday near a railway track near the home of a man suspected of killing three women, two of them on trains, but police said the latest death might be accidental. Police said the 17-year-old victim took a train in Lille, northern France, late on Friday to spend Christmas with friends and family in Albert in the close-by Somme area. They said since there was no sign of violence on the train, it was possible the victim may have been asleep when it arrived at Albert but then woke up and alighted as it left, falling under the wheels. PW/JDP