Debanhi Escobar, the 18-year-old girl who was found dead at the bottom of the cistern of an abandoned motel in the municipality of Escobedo, Nuevo León, was still alive when she fell into the stationary tank, the State Prosecutor's Office reported this Wednesday. at night.
Eduardo Villagómez, coordinator of the Forensic Medicine Service of the Prosecutor's Office, said at a press conference that the young woman had even managed to get up after the fall.
"Because of the place and what we found, the girl fell still alive. Where she was found, she was alive and still had a chance to react," the official said.
Police in Nuevo León, Mexico, guard the Nueva Castilla Motel, where they found a body while searching for the missing young woman Debanhi Escobar Bazaldúa, on April 21, 2022. Millennium
A first autopsy revealed that
the cause of death had been a blunt blow to the head.
But authorities had not released any other details as of Wednesday.
At the express question of a journalist, Villagómez clarified that no water was found in Escobar's lungs.
Well, the cistern in which he was found only had 90 cm of water.
She even managed to stand inside
, the official said.
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According to forensic studies, Escobar had been deceased between five days and two weeks.
The state attorney general, Gustavo Adolfo Guerrero Gutiérrez, clarified during the press conference that Escobar's fall alive inside the cistern is a hypothesis in formation and not a definitive conclusion of the authorities.
"We have not concluded, we have to form the puzzle with what we have and what is obtained"
, he affirmed.
This is a developing story.
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