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Police in Spain have arrested two folks in reference to a lacking individuals case after a Google Maps car took an image of somebody apparently loading a big object into the trunk of a automotive.
A person and a lady have been detained in reference to the disappearance and demise of a lacking man, police mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday.
A relative of the person reported him lacking in November final 12 months after receiving suspicious messages from his telephone, police mentioned.
Although the pair beforehand spoke typically, the person instantly informed his relative within the messages that he had met a brand new associate, could be shifting to a distinct a part of the nation and was eliminating his telephone, based on the assertion.
The report sparked an investigation throughout which police found the Google Maps picture, which they are saying might present a car utilized in reference to a criminal offense.
The picture, which nonetheless seems on Google Maps, was taken within the streets of Tajueco, a small village within the province of Soria within the Castile and León area in northern Spain, in October.
It exhibits an individual leaning into the trunk of a purple automotive containing a big object wrapped in a light-weight coloured material.
This was the primary time {that a} Google Maps car had visited Tajueco to replace the imagery of the village since November 2009, based on Google Maps information.
On November 12, police arrested the previous girlfriend of the lacking man, in addition to one other man who had beforehand been in a relationship with the girl, alleging their involvement within the man’s demise and disappearance.
Police additionally recovered a badly decomposed torso, which has not but been formally recognized however which police say might belong to the sufferer, from a cemetery in a close-by village on December 11.
The investigation continues.
