The 26-year-old, Zhao Fei, who was the woman’s boyfriend, has reportedly left Hungary for an unknown destination.

The tabloid Bors reported on Wednesday that the body was found a few hours after the killer wrote a message “tantamount to a confession” on Facebook. Bors quoted the message as saying “I did not want to hurt you . . . If I die, I hope we shall meet and be together again”.

Police will shortly issue an international arrest warrant. Oslo newspapers said the 21-year-old woman had spent the summer in London after breaking up with her boyfriend and returned to Budapest a short time ago.

A police source said the man was also in Hungary as a student and lived in the City Hostel Flora, where the woman’s body was found.

She was to meet a friend to see a concert in Győr but never arrived for the meeting."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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