MISSING JAPANESE ACTOR FOUND DEAD

A Japanese actor who went missing in Colombia has been discovered dead and already buried in the country's port city Cartagena. SHINGO MUKAI is believed to have disappeared last Friday (05JAN07) after running away when his two companions were paying a taxi driver who had taken them to a party outside Cartagena. The 31-year-old's body was hauled from the water in the Caribbean city's port area with his neck broken on 6 January (07), according to Cartagena mayor NICOLAS CURI. He was buried a day later by the city as an unidentified person because he had no documents and the body was decomposing, Curi says.