Firefighters from the Fire Extinguishing and Rescue Service (SEIS) of the City of Cartagena were forced to take off early this afternoon, about 3:19 pm, from a ninth floor to rescue the corpse of an old man who the neighbors did not They had seen for days.
The strong smell coming from the house alerted them and they informed to the National Police that before the impossibility of acceding to the house, they requested the collaboration of the Firemen.
The deceased lived in an eighth floor of the street Amancio Muñoz and Muralla de Tierra.
After getting down the facade from the top floor, the firefighters were able to enter the house through a window and locate the keys in order to open the judicial police, which carries out the corresponding investigation.
The corpse was in an advanced state of decomposition.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena