Cerro Largo authorities managed to determine the identity of the person whose body was found burned inside a burned-out truck on Route 26.
The incident transpired in the early hours of Thursday. After midnight, Police and Fire personnel went to kilometer 26,500 of the previously indicated route, in the section that connects Melo with Río Branco. The agents moved there after receiving the complaint of the presence in the area of a truck set on fire.
Upon reaching the site located next to a local road within the jurisdiction of Section 12, near Caño Amarillo, the agents found the event described. Fire personnel extinguished the flames that consumed the Volkswagen model Saverio truck and then they ran into the burned person, already lifeless.
On the other hand, two boxes of medication were found near the vehicle, one of psychotropic drugs and the other of painkillers. Likewise, a fuel stain (naphtha) could be observed.
At first, the forensic medical tests determined that it was a man and in the last hours his identity was specified. According to the local media The Independent Networkit is a subject of 39 years of age of initials MNT Although the circumstances of his death are still under study, the main theory suggests that it was a suicide.
