The alert was raised at 12:53 PM, and according to Rui Lampreia, the “only certainty is that the body had been in the water for a long time due to its advanced state of decomposition.”
A team from the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) declared the person deceased at the scene, he added.
According to the commander, the Judicial Police are investigating the case, and once the forensic examinations are completed, the body will be sent to the Institute of Legal Medicine in Porto.
As per the online page of the National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection, at 2:30 PM, there remained 16 operatives on site, supported by four vehicles.
