A POLICE officer guarding an offender who was in hospital shot himself in the toilets on Christmas Day afternoon.
The Mossos d'Esquadra agent was standing on duty over an arrested man at Bellvitge Hospital (pictured) in the town of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona province) when nurses suddenly heard the sound of gunfire.
They found the officer, whose name has not been revealed, dead in the toilets, having killed himself with his police pistol.
A MAN declared dead at his home in the province of Tarragona was on his way to the funeral parlour when he turned out to be alive, according to police sources.
A NEW child protection law named after a British musician living in Spain has been approved in Congress and is set to be signed off by the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, June 8.
