After noon, the Municipality of Letur in Albacete confirmed the appearance of the third dead body in the municipality after the flood where he went from a week. Thus, four missing people have yet to be found in the city.
The body was found very close to the human remains found on Monday night. During this Tuesday morning, they confirmed that it was a member who was now being analyzed to identify him.
Although initially the Council delegate in Albacete, Pedro Antonio Ruiz Santos, reported that the mortal remains of this missing person would match those of Jonathan, during a subsequent appearance, Ruiz Santos indicated that a second verification by the Civil Guard had thrown “no doubt” regarding identity.
“The Civil Guard technicians confirmed that it was Jonathan, which is why we transmitted it first to the family and then to you. Then, during a second check, there was a doubt about the identity and they decided to let us know. more expert testimony to confirm whether or not it is Jonathan“, declared the Council delegate.
This is why Ruiz Santos indicated that the Regional Administration spoke again to the families in the company of the Civil Guard to convey this news to them. “And now we also do it in front of you so that there is a absolute transparency and not waiting for speculation or giving this time on something that we need to be very clear about.
For his part, the colonel of the command of the Civil Guard of Albacete, Jesús Manuel Rodrigo, emphasized that, in its procedures, the Army Institute must ensure “completely” the identity of a deceased person. Thus, he explained, during the application of the protocol, doubts arose as to the identity of this corpse. “Until we have confirmed this identity, we will not be able to say exactly the identity of the body found,” he concluded.
Jhonathan, 37, is one of the missing people wanted in Letur, just like his partner Mónica. A few days ago, the bodies of Dolores and Antonia, the two neighbors already buried, were found respectively one and a half and twelve kilometers away.
In Castile-La Mancha, the torrential rains of last week have gone three deadtwo of them in Letur (Albacete) and another in Mira (Cuenca), while in Letur they are still looking for four other people: the couple who were in their house when it was submerged by water and two municipal employees who were at a vehicle in the creek area at the time of the flood.
