Former Columbian beauty queen, singer and actress Ania Acosta who went missing 10 months ago has been found dead. 

Acosta, who was 43, was buried on Wednesday, Columbia’s embassy in Mexico announced in a social media post. 

‘It is with pain that we inform you that Ania Margoth Acosta was buried today,’ the post began. 

‘A Colombian victim of trafficking and a femicide, but also of abandonment by the State. Today we failed a family, to whom we apologise, and we ask the judicial authorities for a prompt investigation.’ 

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