HE Ivo Petrov’s body, 15 years old disappeared into the waters at the beginning of the month Mar Menor When the canoe in which he was sailing sankHe was found dead this Thursday, twenty days after the search began.
Sources close to the investigation assure that the little boy’s body has been found Being transferred to Los Alcázares Air Base (Murcia).
During the twenty days when the teenager’s whereabouts were unknown, troops assigned to the Copla Plan, Coastal Rescue and Recovery and Sea Rescue, helicopters and dogs specialized in tracking bodies joined the search. Boats, boats and divers participating in the hunt last Sunday.
The case from the beginning
It all happened when two friends I was on the boat with on the morning of January 5, José David and FranciscoThey raised the alarm. Young Petrov He disappeared In the waters of Mar Menor after the canoe capsized They sailed here. On the other hand, the other two young people rescued alive and were taken to the hospital together hypothermia.
Survivors whose lives were not in danger described what happened to Petrov as follows: None of the three could swim and they spent two hours in the water..
Minutes after half past two this Friday morning, a call came from 112. A resident of Los Alcázares, near the pier, said he heard Mar Menor’s cries for help.. These were the boys’ requests for help from water.
Two agents on a boat
According to Emergencies, the Local Police patrol attended the scene and confirmed what the witness said. Sources close to the case say two agents – a local police officer and a civil guard – They put out a tender from the Maritime Club, to search the sea. Later, a rescue boat from the municipal Civil Protection service and a rescue boat from the Los Alcázares Maritime Club were mobilized. Where there were two young people aged 16 and 22, He was evacuated to the port at 03.25 and given to medical service.
An ambulance from 061 was already waiting at the port where paramedics attended to the children (aged 16 and 22 respectively) to take them to hospital. there was conscious and they said there were three: this his friend Petrov was missing, the youngest of the group, was in the canoe with them. Then the device was put into operation. Search by land, sea and air. Patrols from Local Police, Civil Security, Red Cross and Civil Protection ships and the Sea Rescue helicopter are involved. Later, another helicopter joined. Members of the General Air Academy (AGA) also set off on a boat.
As for the canoe in which the children sailed, that too has been found and retreated to the port of Los Alcázares. According to sources close to the case, It didn’t belong to the boys.but they stole it. Benemerita one opened investigation to clarify the conditions under which this occurs shipwreck.