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Dead body discovered on Playa del Hornillo beach in Aguilas
The corpse is presumed to be that of a migrant who drowned trying to cross into Spain from Africa
A dead body was discovered this morning, Tuesday November 21, on the seashore of the Playa del Hornillo beach in Águilas, Murcia. The discovery was made shortly before 11am by someone who was walking in the area and called police.
The mortal remains were taken to the Institute of Legal Medicine of Murcia for an autopsy to be performed. In the absence of official confirmation, and with the investigation having just begun, the main hypothesis being pursued is that the body is that of a person who was travelling on a ‘patera’ small boat trying to get from Northern Africa into Spain and who lost their life by drowning while trying to make the crossing.
According to sources from the Security Forces and Corps, only 10% of the bodies of people who die at sea, in the wreckages of small boats, are ever recovered. Of them, many are never identified; no one claims them and on many occasions their relatives overseas never even learn they have died. Their mortal remains just remain in a cold room in the morgue.
The Region of Murcia is the autonomous community in Spain with the most dead bodies found in one year – 22 of the 209 bodies found nationally so far this year are in Murcia. Most of them are the mortal remains of people found floating on the high seas, who are presumed to be migrants who lost their lives when the boat in which they were trying to reach Europe capsized.
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