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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
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Gerard Couzens, News Correspondent & Abigail O'Leary, News Reporter & Clare McCarthy

People who made horror discovery on Spanish beach thought ‘headless’ body of child was a doll

Horrified beachgoers have told how the 'headless' body of a child that washed up at a tourist spot was reportedly mistaken for a doll.

The remains of the youngster, thought to be aged between two and three, were discovered on the sand early on Tuesday morning at a beach in the Costa Dorada resort of Roda de Bera in the east coast province of Tarragona.

A council cleaner made the grim find and alerted his bosses who called police. The body of the child, said to be missing other body parts as well as its head and thought to have been washed onto the beach from the water, is understood to be in a state of decomposition, the Mirror reports.

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