After the child’s headless body was found on a beach in Barcelona, ​​Spain, on Tuesday, the results of the autopsy came in: it was a 6-month-old girl.

Three days have passed since the child’s headless body was found on a beach in Barcelona, ​​Spain. The autopsy results fell through, and they revised the first estimates downward: Although investigators thought it was a 2-year-old child, it was actually the body of a 6-month-old girl in front of them. learn vanguard.

The case was brought after the gruesome discovery by sanitation officials working at Roda de Pera beach around 8am on Tuesday. The investigation was handed over to the Guardia Civil, the equivalent of the national gendarmerie.

Samples were collected and then sent to the division’s forensic department, specifically to identify the cause of death, as well as the gender and age of the victim, who was wearing a bodysuit and jacket.

A girl who moved to Europe?

At this time, the exact cause of death is still unknown. However, investigators are leaning more towards the hypothesis that the girl drowned in the Mediterranean while on a migrant boat. According to this theory, his body would have later drifted towards the Spanish coast.

A week earlier, Spanish authorities found the mutilated body of a woman on another nearby beach in Tarcona. But investigators deny there is a link between the two cases vanguard.

Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlasca said on Wednesday that the investigations must now continue in accordance with the secrecy of the directive.