16 Oct, 2024 @ 09:24
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Two severely decomposed bodies are found floating near tourist hotspots on Spain’s Costa Blanca

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TWO bodies have been discovered floating off the shore of tourist hotspots in eastern Spain.

The corpses were found around seven hours apart on Tuesday, one at 11.55am and the second at around 7.30pm.

The former was discovered by a fishing boat just 1km off the coast of Villajoyosa.

The seaside town is just a few kilometres south of Benidorm and is hugely popular with British expats and tourists.

The second body was found in the sea off El Campello (pictured above in stock image), in the area of Cala Piteres, according to local newspaper Informacion.

The area is only a few kilometres south of Villajoyosa and sits north of Alicante city.

Both the bodies were found to be in an advanced state of decomposition.

Police are investigating but the working theory is that the corpses were migrants who drowned while attempting to reach Spain.

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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