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The human remains of seven people They were discovered in an advanced state of decomposition by Paraguayan police in a container from Serbia, authorities reported Friday.
The human remains were found by employees of a fertilizer import company in their local neighborhood Santa María de Asunción who notified the Police that were in charge of the procedure.
The container, part of a group of six, was transported from the port of Villeta (30 km south of the capital on the Paraguay River) for the agricultural company.
“Of the seven, three would be of Moroccan nationality and one Egyptian“, The forensic doctor Pablo Lemir told reporters.
“One of the bodies has traces of suffocation as a possible cause of death“He added.
The fertilizers could have accelerated decomposition, the forensic expert noted.
Personal belongings, including backpacks and clothes, phone cards with Cyrillic spelling, typical of Serbia, were removed from the warehouse, according to reports.
The bodies could have belonged to illegal immigrants, said the prosecutor who took over the case, Marcelo Saldívar.
“Food remains were found next to the bodies, which suggests that they were prepared for a short trip,” he observed. Shipment dates from July 22.
The forensic doctor Rosa Romero explained that “one of the deceased would have ingested human flesh – due to lack of food – but that must be corroborated.”
Prosecutor Saldívar said that due to their shapes, the dead “are large, apparently grown men“.
He said that with the collaboration of the international police (Interpol) they will seek to know the identity in the registry of missing persons in Serbia.
According to the local shipping authorities, the container that came to Paraguay made a first 400 km journey from Serbia to Croatia by river.
Later, the container ship made a stopover in Egypt (2,350 km) and from that country to Spain (3,000 km).
From the Iberian country, it stopped at the port of Buenos Aires (10,550 km) before reaching the port of Villeta in Paraguay (30 km south of Asunción on the Paraguay River) to complete another 1,350 km.
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