A baby whose headless body was found washed up on a Spanish beach last week died along with her parents when a migrant boat sank.
Roda de Bera mayor Pere Virgili said last week that the child could have been on a migrant boat that sank in the Mediterranean.
Referencing the massive number of migrants who have died or disappeared and are feared dead while trying to make the dangerous crossing to Europe, he said: ‘The hypothesis that this baby’s body is another one from this Mare Mortum off our beaches is on the table.’ He said the clothes the baby had on, which included a jacket, didn’t point to her drowning in a typical beach accident.Civil Guard officers cordoned off the area and moved locals and holidaymakers away before an investigating judge authorised the removal of the body.
It subsequently emerged the decomposed body had washed up on the beach the previous day, but had been ignored by passers-by who mistook it for a doll. Roda de Bera is a 25-minute drive north of the Spanish east coast city of Tarragona. Barcelona is just over an hour’s drive north.
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