Overview
- Municipal waste workers discovered the body during a 5:00 a.m. Sunday collection on Avenida Pérez Galdós near Parque Ribalta and the bullring.
- Policía Nacional is leading the case with judicial and forensic teams while the refuse truck involved remains sealed for evidence processing.
- Police and municipal sources confirmed the victim is the former husband of Almassora mayor María Tormo, identified by the initials V.D.
- Authorities have not released the cause of death or time of death, and an autopsy is pending to establish both.
- Judicial police assumed control after initial indications at the container site, according to Las Provincias, and witness statements are being taken.