MYSTERY surrounds the gruesome discovery of the decapitated body of a woman that was found floating off a popular Costa del Sol beach.
The woman’s mutilated body was found with her hands chopped off and a deep cut to her stomach at Las Cañas beach in Marbella.
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The grim find was made by a group of friends who were sitting on a restaurant terrace when they spotted something in the water on Sunday evening.
The group raised the alarm as they initially thought it was a person drowning.
According to local reports the woman who was found naked, near the Club 200 restaurant, is thought to have been around 30 years old.
It is believed to have been in the water for only a short time before being discovered.
The area was immediately cordoned off by officers from the Civil Guard, which is the police force leading the probe, before the body was taken away for a post-mortem expected to take place in the next 48 hours.
Detectives were on Sunday night checking missing person reports trying to put a name to the dead woman as part of their ongoing inquiries.
