A woman is believed to have been crushed to death after passing out in a rubbish container coming home from a night out in Spain.
Student Agostina Rubini Medina, 24, disappeared after a night of partying with friends in Palma, Majorca nearly three weeks ago.
Investigators have found skeletal remains at a waste disposal plant where her phone was last active in the early hours of October 3.
They say they believe she fell into a bin while trying to pick something up, before losing consciousness.
Binmen arrived to empty it 15 minutes after a witness saw her handbag set down nearby.
Miss Medina’s phone went dead after their vehicle arrived at an incineration plant. Police believe she would have died in the lorry before arriving.
Miss Medina, a social integration student local to the island, went missing after going out with friends on Wednesday, October 2.
Intensive searches have been ongoing at a landfill site where waste is stored, compacted and incinerated on the island.
Police announced recently that they had found human remains inside one of the tanks and sent them to the Institute of Legal Medicine in Palma for analysis.
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The tragedy has sent shockwaves through the community, still awaiting confirmation of a match in DNA.
Police say if Miss Medina was transported the incinerator, it would have been ‘impossible to survive’ the journey inside the EMAYA lorry.
Rubbish is compacted inside and there is little oxygen. Miss Medina is believed to have already been unconscious when the bin was taken away.
Investigators believe a combination of alcohol and medication she was taking may have affected her judgment before ‘voluntarily’ climbing into a bin on the way home.
