His body, in an advanced state of decomposition, was discovered early this morning on Tuesday morning on Roda de Berà beach.
A macabre discovery was made this Tuesday morning on the beach of Roda de BeraSeaside resort on the Costa Daurada, between Barcelona And Tarragona (Catalonia). Around 8 a.m. the body of a child was discovered lying in the sand. The first findings were terrible: the body was that of a two-year-old child who could have spent a long time in the water. A body discovered in an advanced state of decomposition, missing the head.
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According to the man in charge of beach maintenance who discovered the child, the body had been lying on the beach since the day before, but no one had approached it, mistaking it for a doll. According to the mayor of Roda de Berà, the child could initially have been on a refugee boat that capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.
But this weekend a first autopsy gave his verdict: According to information from El Periodico, the body “spent between fifteen days and two months in the water”. The baby, “who was no more than 6 months old,” was a little girl. DNA testing still needs to be done to determine the child’s ethnicity. The Guardia Civil also examines the sea currents and lists recent shipwrecks to determine the whereabouts of the body.