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A Man Who Had Been Dead for 15 Years Found in His Home in Valencia, Spain: Water Leaks in the Building Led to His Discovery
The man, identified as Antonio born in 1936, was found after blocked drainage caused flooding that led residents to alert police, revealing a death estimated 15 years prior.
- On Monday, Local Police officers in Spain's Valencia region found skeletal remains in a flat in the Fuensanta neighbourhood inside the block of flats on Calle Luis Fenollet.
- Blocked drainage in the block forced water to accumulate on the top-floor terrace of the block of flats, as recent torrential downpours affecting the eastern Mediterranean area swelled the system.
- The remains were moved to Valencia's institute of forensic medicine after investigators found the skeleton at the entrance, identifying it as Antonio, dead for at least 15 years.
- Residents of the building called local police and firefighters, and the National Police later took charge while the cause of death remains unconfirmed and the property suffered total loss.
- Local outlets Levante-EMV and Las Provincias reported the discovery and noted the building on Calle Luis Fenollet suffered total loss after recent heavy rains.
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The body of a man in his seventies who may have been dead in his apartment for fifteen years has been found in the Spanish city of Valencia. Firefighters found the man while responding to the flooding that has been ravaging the city since this weekend.
The water was the first to attract attention. It fell from the ceiling to the floor on the floor of a resident of one of the buildings of Luis Fenollet street, in the neighborhood of La Fuensanta. His neighbor from above had been flooded with the terrace. DANA Alice had been unloading hard days in Valencia, and the man thought it was a simple jam in the drain of the terrace. So he warned the Firemen. Upon arrival they discovered that the problem…
In fact, the police and the fire department wanted to fix a leak of water in a house. They discovered the remains of a man. His death is said to have been undetected for more than 15 years.
A man who had been dead for 15 years found in his home in Valencia, Spain: water leaks in the building led to his discovery
Nobody suspected anything. Nobody missed him. Not even his two children with whom he had no relationship whatsoever. He paid and was up to date with everything. Everyone thought he
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TV 2During cleanup after heavy rain and flooding in Valencia, Spain, emergency services found a man believed to have been dead in his apartment for 15 years.
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