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Tenn. School Says Student Killed On Missionary

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - School officials from a Tennessee University said a 20-year-old student doing missionary work in Micronesia was killed.

Southern Adventist University, a Seventh-day Adventist university near Chattanooga, posted a message online about the death of Kirsten Elisabeth Wolcott, who was found dead Wednesday after not returning from a morning jog on the island of Yap.

According to a statement provided to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, police are investigating the death as an apparent murder. No cause of death has been listed.

Wolcott was a junior liberal arts education major originally from Laneview, Va.

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