A spokesperson for the Guardia Civil in Alicante today confirmed the police efforts led by the Homicide Team of the Judicial Police Unit of the Alicante Civil Guard Command. He said: “Officers were alerted to a body at a property in the Campoamor area of Orihuela Costa at around 9pm on December 21.
“The ongoing investigation is being led by the homicide team of the judicial police unit of the Alicante Civil Guard Command. A court in Orihuela has issued a secrecy order on the case.”
Local sources claimed the man had been shot, although this has not been confirmed by police, who have also not publicly named him.
News of the killing comes less than three weeks after a Briton was shot at least three times in an underground car park in the same area but miraculously survived.
Detectives are said to be investigating whether the two crimes and others in recent months involving British and Irish nationals on the Costa Blanca are linked.
Local police were also reportedly tipped off by friends of the victim that ‘something serious’ had happened to him, and found his bloodied body after going to the property reported to them.
Civil Guard detectives are said to be treating the case as a drug-related crime. No arrests have yet been made.
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