When it is fulfilled a week after the start of a flood in Leturafter the passage of the DANA, this Tuesday the discovery of human remains was reported in the Las Ramblas area of this Albacete municipality of the Sierra del Segura, where a search was made for four people still missing.
ABC has been informed of this by emergency service 112 of Castilla-La Manchawhich has indicated that the notice occurred late on Monday, around nine at night, and they were able to be extracted this morning using heavy machinery, after authorization from the judicial commission.
“The human remains have appeared 500 meters from where the boulevard begins,” according to what the delegate of the Board in Albacete, Pedro Antonio Ruiz Santoswho explained that they have been sent to the Forensic Anatomical Institute of Madrid for DNA analysis and “we will have to wait for them to confirm the identity, which could be later today.”
From the command post in Letur, together with the president of the Albacete Provincial Council, Santiago Cabañero, and accompanied by the relatives of the missing, Ruiz Santos explained that it was a warning from the canine unit specialized in underwater interventions of the Civil Guard. the one that determined the existence of those remains on Las Ramblas, but it is still unknown to whom they belong.
Right now, in the Albacete municipality, as indicated by the Board delegate, there are working two cynological units from the Civil Guard, five from the UME (Military Emergency Unit) and this Tuesday another one joins more to search the area near the Segura River, in an operation in which 17 machines also work.
This latest discovery occurs after the lifeless body of Antonia, a woman who was in her home when it collapsed due to the torrent of water, was found on Sunday in the area known as La Longuera, 12 kilometers from the town centre. the flood
In Letur, four people are still being sought: a couple who was in their house when it was overwhelmed by the water and two municipal workers. who were in a vehicle in the area of the stream at the time of the flood.
This Tuesday the search radius was expanded to the Cenajo reservoir to try to locate them. It is the seventh day of the search, whose operation is distributed across three teams.
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