Overview

• Civil Protection members located the decomposed body during a routine training exercise with search dogs in a vacant lot adjacent to Hospital La Plana.
• One of the trained dogs found the corpse hidden among bushes, and its condition suggests it had been there for several days.
• Agents from the Policía Nacional’s Grupo de Investigación and the police scientific unit took charge of the scene under judicial supervision.
• Investigators swiftly transferred the remains to the Forensic Anatomy department in Castellón for identification and medical examination.
• Officials say the cause of death remains undetermined pending the results of the autopsy and further forensic tests.