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The Civil Guard has rescued the body of the Bather who disappeared on Sunday on Massalfassar beach. The body, which was being intensively searched for with the support of air and sea resources, was found at 8.30 pm yesterday in the same area where the man, a 54-year-old resident of Albalat dels Sorells, disappeared.

The body, which had to be identified by Miguel’s relatives, was trapped in the water under some heavy rocks and a heavy crane was needed to recover the body. Police officers participated in the work. Special Group for Underwater Activities (GEAS) of the Civil Guard and the Mountain Group of the Armed Institute.

Likewise, the massalfassar s town hallHe has been involved in the search at all times and has been in charge of looking for the crane, belonging to a company from Sagunt, with which they have finally moved the rocks that imprisoned the lifeless body of this person. “With the aforementioned crane they have tied some ropes to the rock and have been able to get the body out from under it,” explains Higinio Yuste, mayor of Massalfassar, who was sent to the rescue site early in the morning.

Was a family friend who found the body at 8.30 pm yesterday when he was searching the rocks of the jetty, practically in the same place where Miguel was last seen last Sunday at noon. “We did not expect the body to be stranded there right at the point where he had disappeared,” admits the mayor of Massalfassar. Apparently, the algae that had accumulated the day before made it difficult to see the body under the rocks.

Due to the difficulty in accessing the body, the intervention of police officers was necessary. Special Group for Underwater Activities (GEAS) of the Civil Guard. Since seven in the morning an operation has been mounted to be able to rescue the body trapped under the rocks. First they have considered moving the rock with a backhoe, but they have found that the arm could not reach. They have also been unable to do so with a crane truck that has been moved to the place, because it could not lift so much weight. And it has been necessary to call a company from Sagunt to send a heavy duty crane.

Finally, minutes before twelve o’clock in the morning, the lifeless body of this resident of Albalat del Sorells, father of a daughter, was rescued by the GEAS. The Civil Guard boat took him to the port of the Pobla de Farnals yacht club, where the judicial commission proceeded to remove the body, which was transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine of Valencia.

Numerous troops from Maritime Rescue, Red Cross, Firefighters Consortiumwho searched the air with drones, and agents from the Civil Guard and the Local Police of Massalfassar, participated in the search efforts, by land, sea and air, since last Sunday at noon when this resident of Albalat del Sorells was last seen. His relatives have gone this morning to the place where he was found to confirm with pain that it was him.