Crime/Incidents news & information for Murcia

A GERMAN tourist has been caught red-handed stealing archaeological artefacts from a restricted excavation site in Cartagena (Murcia).

A BRITISH man convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl and a woman in the 1980s has been arrested in Baños de Fortuna (Murcia) after decades on the run.

A BRITISH woman's body has been found in a canal in the Region of Murcia and a burnt-out car near the scene.

VANDALS have struck for the fifth time on the AVE high-speed rail network under construction in the city of Murcia – the latest in a series of incidents thought to be the work of gangs trying to sabotage the plans.

FIVE people have been killed in a multiple pile-up on the A-7 motorway through Murcia and another 10 injured.

A RAFT with the bodies of five sub-Saharan African migrants has been found off the coast of Cartagena (Murcia).

EXPLOSIVES experts have detonated a phosphorus flare found by a man catching the rays on Estacio beach in La Manga del Mar Menor (Murcia).

LOCAL Police in Murcia attended to an 89-year-old man who was 'lost' driving down the Avenida de Juan de Borbón, saying he had set out from his home in Madrid to buy some wine and did not know where he was.

A TRIAL has started this week against a doctor believed to have been behind the first-known 'baby theft' in Spain, in 1969, when dictator General Franco was still in power.

NATIONAL Police in the Region of Murcia believe they have 'clear indications' that a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide had been bullied at school.

A 28-YEAR-OLD man who was left in a coma after an attack by a nightclub bouncer has woken up, says his family, although his condition remains 'serious but stable'.

FLASH floods on the east coast of mainland Spain have now claimed four lives, including the man from Finestrat (Alicante province) who died in the early hours of Saturday after trying to reach his car on the seafront.