5 May, 2024 @ 21:16
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Body is found in a ditch near five-star hotel on Spain’s Costa del Sol: Police launch urgent investigation

A BODY has been found in a ditch near a five star hotel on the Costa del Sol.

The grisly discovery was made at around 2pm on Sunday, in the vicinity of the Kempinski hotel in Estepona.

According to Area Costa del Sol, the corpse was found on a road leading to the former Prado World.

Police have yet to comment on the discovery and the identity of the deceased remains unknown.

Nor is it clear how long the corpse was laying in the road before being discovered.

While many on social media have speculated the involvement of organsied crime, that is yet to be confirmed by any official sources.

The body was taken away by the authorities and will undergo an autopsy to determine cause of death.

Police will also be racing to identify the person. It is not known if they are male or female.

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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