In Argentina, the remains of a missing man have been found in the stomach of a dog shark. Diego Barria, missing since mid-February, was identified Tuesday by a tattoo on his forearm. According to the report, two fishermen came across parts of Barría’s body when they disemboweled a dogfish they had previously caught in the sea 1,500 miles south of Buenos Aires.
Barría, 32, was last seen on Feb. 18 on an all-terrain quad bike on a beach near the southern Argentine port city of Comodoro Rivadavia. A few days after his disappearance, the quad bike and Barría’s helmet were found on the shore. According to regional police investigators, Barría, who works for an oil company, probably landed on a rock, lost consciousness and then swept out to sea.
A major search turned up nothing
Barría had been searched at considerable expense since his disappearance. The two fishermen said they found “human skin, fat and flesh” when they disemboweled one of the dog sharks they caught, police said. So the fish was about five feet long. Dog sharks are classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Authorities released a voice message sent by one of the fishermen to a cousin on the Whatsapp messenger service after finding the missing person’s remains. He was “unlucky enough to find him in a shark,” the man said of Barria.
Identified by tattoo
He found a forearm with a tattooed rose inscribed with “Josefina” in the animal’s stomach, he said in the voice message. He and his companion reported the find to local police, who then determined it to be the missing Barria.
Source: Krone
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