Spanish police have confirmed that the body of a baby girl that washed up on a beach near the city of Tarragona in Spain belongs to a migrant child who died in a shipwreck along with 14 others in April. The boat, carrying the infant, her parents, and 12 other migrants, departed from northern Algeria on March 21 and sank off Spain’s Balearic islands in the Mediterranean on April 6. The tragic incident claimed the lives of all 15 individuals on board.
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The discovery of the baby’s decomposed body was made by a municipal cleaning crew on July 11 at Roda de Bera beach in the province of Tarragona, approximately 200 kilometres (124 miles) northwest of Mallorca. The identification process was carried out by the Criminalistics Service, which matched the girl’s genetic material with a database that included her mother’s DNA.
