The Government Delegation in Cantabria reported this Thursday that a GEO agent of the National Police has located the body of a person in the area of El Bocal, where it is located. At this time, agents are working to recover the body to identify if it is the 20-year-old girl who was missing.
Emergency personnel have been carrying out search work in the coastal area all day. The collapse of the walkway caused the death of five of them, four girls and a boy aged 19 and 22. A 19-year-old girl is recovering in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Valdecilla hospital in Santander. The students, nature lovers, studied a higher degree in Livestock Technician and Animal Health Assistance at the La Granja de Heras vocational training center, located in the center of Heras, about 15 kilometers from Santander. “It was ‘”, Carlos Micó, director of the center, said of them yesterday.
While these tasks are carried out in the area, the City Council, governed by Gema Igual (PP), has requested from the Local Police a detailed report on the call from a neighbor, named Francisco Cabellos, who alerted 112 on Monday that the wooden bridge The document will be incorporated into the judicial proceedings investigating the incident, municipal sources have specified.
The Local Police of Santander received just 24 hours of professional training from the coastal walkway in the northern part of the city that included a route over small cliffs in the northern part of the city. The mayor has not offered public explanations of how this information was managed, which could have been key to adopting some preventive measure, such as preventing access to the facility until its security was evaluated. The Santander Local Police reported on Wednesday that two walkways on the coastal path west of the accident site have already been sealed.
This Thursday, two days after this tragic event, the search for Elena SP, the missing young woman from Guadalajara, has continued. The National Police, in charge of the investigation, was examining one of the deep cuts until after 10:00 p.m. this Wednesday, police sources explain. Agents from the Special Operations Group (GEO) descended through one of the two huge cracks near the bridge. At eight in the morning this Thursday they resumed work, in which an underwater drone is being used.
Judicial Police and Scientific Police agents also participate in the device deployed in the area, who will prepare reports on the area and the circumstances of the students’ deaths. Citizen security agents have also been deployed, in charge of controlling access to the area, as well as firefighters from Santander, Local Police, Civil Protection, 112 and the Red Cross.
In the maritime part, the search has been resumed by Maritime Rescue and Civil Guard vessels, and from the air, the Helimer Rescue helicopters and that of the Government of Cantabria (112). The command post has been moved to a slightly lower area as it was a fairly windy day.
