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Body Recovered After Overnight Search at Tarragona Port

Judicial police now move the case into identification under standard protocol.

Overview

  • An emergency call to 112 reported a man who entered the water and did not resurface near the wooden pier on Calle Trafalgar in the Serrallo neighborhood.
  • The Port Police relayed the alert to the Guardia Civil, which coordinated initial land searches with spotlights while Guardia Urbana checked nearby vessels and urban areas.
  • Cruz Roja and Salvamento Marítimo vessels swept the harbor from the last known point of sighting.
  • Bombers de la Generalitat deployed GRAE divers who began the underwater search at 03:50 and located the body at 04:00 a few meters from where he was last seen.
  • The body was secured and marked with a buoy, then recovered after the Guardia Civil’s judicial unit arrived with court authorization, with formal identification and autopsy pending.