25 Feb, 2021 @ 17:13
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Children at surf camp discover body floating near shore on Spain’s Costa del Sol

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A BODY has been discovered floating off the shore of Velez-Malaga on the Costa del Sol.

The lifeless corpse was stumbled upon by children from a surfing camp at around 2pm on Thursday.

The group were running into the water when they saw the body of the man, believed to be between 30 and 35 years old, some four metres from the shoreline and attached to a buoy.

The instructor of the school, based in the Los Rubios area of Torre de Benagalbon, immediately dived in and brought the body back to the beach.

He immediately called the Policia Local and Guardia Civil.

The man is believed to be of Moroccan origin and would not have been dead for more than a week, police said.

It is not yet known if he died trying to immigrate from North Africa to Spain, as he has not yet been identified.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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