They identify a Cuban found dead in the Guama River in Pinar del Rio

A body found in the last few hours in the Guama River in Pinar del Rio corresponds to a young Cuban who was reported missing more than a week ago.

about it Elieser Ledesma MirelesThe 37-year-old, who went missing on January 4, had gone to visit his father, who had been admitted to a provincial hospital, he informed. Cybercuba

A person close to the victim who chose to remain anonymous.

The source said the young man was “suffering from mental problems” and “hospitalized his father.”

“Since January 4, when he left to visit her, nothing more was heard from her until they met her yesterday,” he explained.

According to the statement, experts decided that The cause of death was suicide.

“He threw himself into the river, he was missing for eight days, that’s why he was in such a bad state of decomposition,” he clarified.

Ledesma Mireles was a maintenance worker at the Modesto Gómez Rubio Hospital in the municipality of San Juan y Martínez, just 20 kilometers from the provincial capital.

Several friends and neighbors requested information about him on social networks, where they published an image to try to find him.

Initially, several witnesses to the moment the body was pulled from the tributary said it was a man, badly decomposed and his head apparently missing.

A video shared on the internet – recorded remotely – shows the moment authorities rushed to remove the body from where it was found, leaving residents of the area stunned by the tragic discovery.