A holidaymaker made the gruesome find just hours after a woman’s body washed up in the same area, near a popular nightclub on the beach in Can Pastilla, near Playa de Palma
A severed human foot and lower leg have washed up on a beach popular with tourists on the holiday island of Mallorca.
A holidaymaker made the gruesome find just hours after a woman’s body washed up in the same area, near a popular nightclub on the beach in Can Pastilla, near Playa de Palma on Saturday. The man called police but by the time officers arrived it had washed back out to sea.
Divers were sent out and eventually found the foot, as well as a tibia and a fibula, off the shore. It was first suspected that the foot belonged to the dead woman, but investigators have revealed that the severed foot, the leg bones were too large and are more likely to have belonged to a man. A post mortem has been ordered by the Spanish National Police.
This is the 10th time a body or body parts have washed up on the coasts of the Balearic Islands, which include Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza since the start of 2025. It is believed they are all migrants attempting to cross the ocean by boat.
The woman found on Saturday was reportedly not wearing a life jacket. Two other bodies were in found in the Mallorcan towns of Cala Ratjada and Cala Deia. Four more people were found on Formentera.
Spanish Police said it suspects that all victims were migrants that attempted to illegally enter Europe via a small boat or raft from Algeria.