The Civil Guard is working overtime to locate the owner(s) of a drug boat, 10 meters long, equipped with two 300 horsepower engines, and which It was going to serve as a hiding place for La Mangabut on the way to the beach, the trailer they were transporting the boat in came loose. Such an accident caused a multiple collision, with seven vehicles involved in which thirteen innocent people were traveling, two of whom lost their lives and three are in serious condition.
“It seems that They were heading to the La Manga highway with a drug boat on a trailer.so they could come from Los Nietos, a neighboring town that has a beach, or from a town hall in Cartagena”, according to sources close to the investigation opened by the Civil Guard. “They were going to throw him into the sea somewhere in La Manga because there is movement of caches there.
This apparent drug trafficking operation ended up turning into a terrible road accident. “The trailer was unhitched when they entered the La Manga highway and A Seat León that was behind crashed into the drug boat because he was poorly attached“.
The road accident occurred around 9:30 p.m. this Saturday, on the RM-12 highway, near El Algar, in the municipality of Cartagena, when the semi-rigid boat ended up on the asphalt after having become detached from the trailer which was transporting it. . “Three British citizens were traveling on the Seat León, two of them died and the third was admitted in serious condition to the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital.
This Civil Guard source specifies that the deceased are PD, 49 years old, and JW, 57 years old, while the third English citizen who remains admitted in serious condition to La Arrixaca has the initials: IP, 54 years old. “They could be three tourists from the UK as all were traveling on passports. and they did not have a NIE on them. » Additionally, the Seat León was loaded with golf clubs.
Currently, the Armed Institute is make arrangements with the British Embassy to find out if they were tourists heading towards La Manga or English citizens residing in the Murcia region. The only thing that is clear is that they were the most affected by this road accident. Here is how a member of the vast emergency team deployed this Saturday on the RM-12 highway sums it up:
“The zodiac was a narco-boat because it didn’t have a license plate, they transported it in a trailer and they attached it poorly, with the bad luck that it came loose, and the car they were transporting from behind, The boat fell on him at 100 or 120 kilometers per hour. The driver of the car tried to avoid it, but was unable to do so and ended up completely deformed. Two of its occupants died instantly. He beheaded them“.
Drug traffickers on the run
A source from the Civil Guard explains to EL ESPAÑOL that “we suspect that At least two people were in the vehicle that was towing the drug boat.because it’s a ten meter long boat and you need help to put it in the water. “They were going to La Manga to clean.” After the collision, the drug traffickers fled and, at the moment, the Campo de Cartagena is turned upside down to hunt them down.
“There is a witness who provided interesting informationon the vehicle in which they fled and which was the one towing the boat.” The Judicial Police are investigating this road accident, caused by a boat which, due to its characteristics, may be linked to drug trafficking : it has an extended bow, with the capacity to carry dozens of balls of hashish or other substances, as well as four aligned seats so the crew can manage the logistics of a hideout.
The accident against the Seat León boat in which the three British citizens were traveling, triggered a multiple collision on RM-12 in which six other vehicles were involved. Five of its occupants were slightly injured, but two others were seriously injured. “One of the seriously injured is a man of Spanish nationality, aged 39, who was traveling in a Peugeot 2008, and the other seriously injured is an 18-year-old teenager, who was in a Toyota Yaris.”