
A corpse in an advanced state of decomposition He was located Monday evening by a hunter in the Los Pajaritos ravine, an arm of the Río ravine, in Santa Cruz de La Palma, in the Velhoco region. The National Police took charge of the investigation to find out the causes of the event.
The discovery area is located in a difficult access point in which there is no houses and there is generally no traffic. Police sources indicated that specialized officers moved from Tenerife and firefighters participated in the removal of the body.
The authorities will now be responsible for verifying identity of the deceased and clarify the circumstances of the death, as well as the time when the body could have been at the scene. Several missing persons cases remain open on the island in recent years, which have been impossible to file because their bodies have not been found, RTVC reports.