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A MYSTERY skull found by a dog walker near Granada two years ago belonged to a young man missing from Catalunya. Police have revealed the head unearthed by an expat, near Orgiva, was that of a 21-yearold man from Barcelona.

They told the Olive Press they solved the mystery after running various DNA tests on the skull and later body that turned up two months later nearby.

It also helped that the man’s credit card was found next to the body.

The man had been reported missing in early 2021, having vanished in unusual circumstances.

While they ruled out foul play the body and head were found some distance apart, yet both were right next to a popular car park where dozens of hippies live in vans.

“After running a DNA test, we confirmed the skull belongs to a young man who went missing in Barcelona earlier that

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By Alberto Lejarraga

year,” Juan Carlos Lopez, a Guardia Civil spokesman told the Olive Press.

“He was a Spanish national who was 21 at the time he disappeared.

“His body was found further down a nearby cliff in January 2022 and next to it, there was a credit card that allowed us to know his identity.”

Despite the victim's head being separated from the body, Lopez says the autopsy did not reveal any signs of violence.

“We closed the investigation because the autopsy revealed he died of natural causes, with a hypothesis being an accident.”

The claims fly in the face of the

Romanian expat whose dog Dragon found the head on November 18, 2021. She revealed she had been taking a walk around the alternative community of Beneficio, near Orgiva, when the animal dug up the skull by the main car park. She first linked the discovery to the Spanish Civil War, but soon dismissed the idea as the smell was very strong.

HOW WE TOLD IT: In November 2021

Olive Press.

At the time the discovery led to considerable speculation that it might have belonged to a Dutch expat woman who had lived in the community years before.

“Nothing like this has ever happened to me before and I knew straight away I needed to call the police,” she told the

The Guardia Civil is unable to reveal the identity of the deceased, as the family has not given them permission to do so.

A three-year-old child and his father have died after being pulled from a swimming pool in Calvia on Monday. Their unmoving bodies were spotted floating on the water by a neighbour who contacted emergency services.

A number of residents pulled them from the water and performed CPR following phone instructions from emergency services.

Two ambulances arrived at the scene shortly after and medical staff managed to resurrect both of them.

They were rushed into Son Espases Hospital but the father died during the ambulance journey. His son passed away in intensive care the next day.

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