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Fishermen in Argentina have found the remains of a man who had been missing for days in a shark's stomach.
This is reported by local officials.
According to this, the person missing since mid-February was identified by a tattoo on a found forearm.
The fishermen came across the dead man's body parts when they gutted a dogfish they had previously caught in the sea 1,500 kilometers south of Buenos Aires.
According to the police, the two fishermen said they had discovered “human skin, fat and flesh”.
The shark was about five feet long.
Days of searching
The 32-year-old man was last seen on February 18 on a quad bike on a beach near the southern Argentine port of Comodoro Rivadavia.
A few days after his disappearance, the man's quad bike and helmet were found on the shore.
According to investigators from the regional police department, the man, who works for an oil company, probably fell on a rock, lost consciousness and was then swept away from the sea.
The missing person had been searched for at considerable expense since his disappearance.
ptz/AFP