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ANDALUSIA

Álvaro Prieto died electrocuted between the cars of a train, according to the autopsy

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  The preliminary result of the study of the young man's corpse concludes that he had burns on his hands and "signs compatible with an electric shock"

  
  
  

  The Córdoba CF player Álvaro Prieto , who disappeared last Thursday at the Santa Justa station in Seville when he was trying to return to his city after spending the night in the capital of Seville, died of electrocution the same day he disappeared.

  
  
  

  This has been confirmed, at least, by the preliminary results of the autopsy. The first conclusions indicate that the young man had burns on his hands and, he explains, "compatible signs of an electric shock taking into account the high-voltage coupling cables between the cars."

  
  
  

  From the beginning, Seville Police Homicide investigators worked with the hypothesis that Prieto could have died accidentally.

  
  
  

  Following the preliminary conclusions of the forensic experts, the court has lifted the secrecy of the summary.

  
  
  

  A TVE cameraman found this morning in the vicinity of the Santa Justa station ( Seville ) the body of D. The body was lying between two cars.

  
  
  

  According to Renfe, the train was damaged and had not been in service since August. Since then it had neither been moved nor had it been inspected. Today I was carrying out some maneuvers without passengers.

  
  
  

  In the absence of DNA tests confirming the identity, the clothing matches what Álvaro Prieto was wearing on the day of his disappearance . One of the hypotheses that the Police are using is that the young man died from electrocution while trying to access the car or that he received a fatal blow during the movement of the train.

  
  
  

  A TVE camera that was recording images of resources to broadcast during the news has captured what looked like a body between two train cars at the station where the young man disappeared. The news was reported live and the Police later confirmed the discovery of the body and the identity of the young man.

  
  
  

  Córdoba CF also published a statement on Instagram in which it regrets the death of the player.

  
  
  

  It so happens that members of the Police and the Military Emergency Unit (UME) had carried out a search with trained dogs on Sunday night in an area located very close to where the body was this morning.

  
  
  

  The Government delegate in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández, explained that the workshop area had been left out of this search and the plan was to carry out the inspection of that part of the roads throughout this Monday.

  
  
  

  The 18-year-old young man, a resident of Córdoba and a Córdoba FC player, disappeared on October 12 in Seville, near the Santa Justa station, after returning from a party with a friend. He ran out of battery and could not show the train ticket he had bought to return home.

  
  
  

  Yes, he was able to send one last Whatsapp message to his mother before her phone went off. In it she told him that she was already on her way to the station, but shortly afterward she ran out of battery. She tried to get on the train for which she had bought a ticket but it was impossible as she could not show the ticket to the conductor because her phone was turned off. After trying to get on another train also without success, surveillance cameras recorded him leaving the station and walking along Kansas City Avenue, where he lost track of him.

  
  
  

  His mother, in statements made on Saturday to Onda Cero Córdoba, said that she believed that the young man had felt "powerless" when he saw that he could not call or buy a ticket because his cell phone battery had run out. "That's why I looked in the account to see if I had bought another ticket," she explained.

  
  
  

  Apparently, he explained to the station hostess what had happened to him, but they ignored him. From here, he believes that the young man thought that he had to "find a way" to return to Córdoba . "He wasn't going to come walking, because a car. A car stops and one of two things: either the car has taken him and they have done everything to him or while walking there, a car has hit him," he added.

  
  
  

  On Sunday late afternoon, members of the Army Military Emergency Unit (UME) joined the search efforts for the young man. For about two hours, about 20 members of the army and the National Police, aided by several dogs, searched the edges of the train tracks, starting from a point located approximately one kilometer from the Santa Justa station . This morning the tracking work had been resumed, although, according to EFE, the presence of uniformed agents was not seen in the area around the Santa Justa station in Seville , where he was last seen.

  
  


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