During a quad excursion, a 32-year-old has an accident and falls unconscious into the sea. At least that's what the police think is plausible. The man was searched for days. Fishermen are now finding parts of him in a shark's stomach. A tattoo helps with identification.
The remains of a missing man have been found in the stomach of a dog shark in Argentina. According to officials, Diego Barria, who has been missing since mid-February, was identified by a tattoo on his forearm. According to the report, two fishermen came across parts of Barría's body when they gutted a dogfish they had previously caught in the sea 1500 kilometers south of Buenos Aires.
Barría, 32, was last seen on February 18 riding a quad off-road vehicle on a beach near the southern Argentinian port city of Comodoro Rivadavia. A few days after his disappearance, the quad and Barría's helmet were found on the shore. According to investigators from the regional police department, Barría, who works for an oil company, probably hit a rock, lost consciousness and was then swept away from the sea.
Barría had been searched at considerable expense since his disappearance. The two fishermen said they found "human skin, fat and flesh" while gutting one of the dog sharks they had caught, police said. The fish was therefore about one and a half meters long. Dog sharks are classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Authorities released a voice message that one of the fishermen had sent via Whatsapp to a cousin after finding the remains of the missing man. He was "unlucky that I found him in a shark," the man said of Barria.
He found a forearm with a tattooed rose with the inscription "Josefina" in the animal's stomach, he said in the voice message. He and his companion reported the find to the local police authority, who then determined that it was the missing Barria.
