11 Dec, 2019 @ 15:35
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BREAKING: Fresh suspected shooting as body of young man found off a cliff on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Breaking news at The Olive Press

THE body of a young man has been discovered off a cliff on the Costa del Sol. 

The grisly find was spotted by a passerby in Mijas at around 9am today.

Police believe the man was shot at several times after finding bullet casings near the body.

Emergency number 112 received a call at 9.20am to report that a body had been found laying face down on a steep area of the cliffs behind Penon del Cura beach, situated between Fuengirola and Mijas.

The body was found not far from a popular chiringuito.

Paramedics, Policia Local, Guardia Civil and firefighters were all called to the scene.

The Benemerita Underwater Activities Group (GEAS) has also been mobilised to search for evidence in the waters surrounding the body.

The corpse is being lifted before being taken for an autopsy.

It comes a week after a Frenchman was shot and killed in a suspected gangland hit in the Cabopino area of Marbella.

Last month, meanwhile, saw a British businessman from Manchester shot and killed in his car in Mijas.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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