Police in Majorca have said that a woman is believed to have died after falling into a rubbish bin.
Agostina Rubini Medina has been missing for over two weeks in Majorca after disappearing at the end of a night out with friends in Palma on 2 October.
Officials have said that they believe the student tried to retrieve something from a bin and passed out during the process, with the bin then emptied into a waste lorry where she was crushed to death in the early hours of the following morning.
At a press conference last Thursday (17 October), Spanish police said they feared she had been crushed to death inside the lorry, before her remains were incinerated at a waste disposal centre the lorry drove to.
They had been using her mobile phone signal to trace her movements on the night she went missing and a witness told them they saw the woman’s handbag next to the bin about 15 minutes before it was emptied into the lorry.
Police have said they fear student Agostina Rubini Medina died after falling into a bin after a night out. (NF/News X)
Investigators are now looking for evidence of the student’s DNA at the landfill site in an attempt to confirm what happened to her.
Deputy Police Chief Fernando Reboyras said: “She was a thin woman who had difficulty consuming alcohol. This was made worse by the medication she was taking.”
He added that the investigation believes Medina had been waiting for a bus at around midnight when something of hers fell into the bin and she got inside to get it back.
A witness who was at the bus stop at 12:12am said they saw the 24-year-old student’s handbag, but did not hear calls for help or screams from within the bin.
Binmen arrived 15 minutes later, collecting the rubbish from the bin at 12:27am and emptying it into their lorry where they believe she was crushed to death.
Investigators believe the 24-year-old fell into the bin and passed out, and was then crushed to death inside a rubbish truck. (NF/News X)
The bin lorry arrived at the landfill site where the woman’s phone went dead at 12:52am.
Investigators have said that it is ‘impossible to survive inside a rubbish truck’ and the 24-year-old would have been dead on the journey to the landfill site.
According to the Majorca Daily Bulletin, officers at last week’s press conference said the woman was last seen at 11:57pm on 2 October where they believed she intended to wait for a bus.
Ángel Ruiz, head of the National Police’s Homicide Group, said investigators are certain ‘she never took that bus’.
They also report that the student’s phone last gave a signal at 2:59am and that skeletal remains have been found and sent for analysis.
