MIAMI, United States.- Border guards from Santiago de Cuba found on Tuesday morning the lifeless body of Gabriel Calante Álvarez, the 21-year-old biology student at the Universidad de Oriente, missing since last Saturday, as confirmed in his Facebook social network account the journalist Cuscó Tarradel.
The young man was last seen Saturday at El Sardinero beach, where he was with two other students and a teacher doing fieldwork. The body was found floating on the waters of Aguadores, Tarradel said.
“A team from the Santiago de Cuba border guard troops has today confirmed the discovery of the body of Gabriel Calante Álvarez, a 21-year-old young man who disappeared on May 14 on ‘El Sardinero’ beach,” Cuscó Tarradel wrote on Facebook.
“Around eight o’clock in the morning of this May 17, the discovery of the deceased, floating on the waters of Aguadores, was reported to the Campaign Command Post of the Red Cross Rescue and Salvage Corps in the presence of Aris Arias Batalla, responsible for Operations and Relief, after more than 72 hours of search that involved MININT personnel, professional divers, rescuers, volunteers, as well as professors and students from the Universidad de Oriente,” he added.
According to Tarradel, shortly after noon on Tuesday, Forensic Medicine specialists identified the missing person.
After reporting the disappearance last Saturday, the university center explained: “On May 14, a professor and three students from the Department of Biology-Geography of the Faculty of Natural and Exact Sciences, by personal decision and without constituting an academic activity, carried out a visit to Sardinero Beach, located near the Abel Santamaría neighborhood of Santiago de Cuba”.
There are warnings that save lives
Playa Sardinero is an “Undeclared” bathing area and sometimes the sea currents are extremely strong and a few meters from the shore there is already a high depth, several users have declared about the place.
“I make an alert about the danger involved in bathing in the ‘El Sardinero’ area. There are notices that save lives”, reiterated even the official journalist in his publication.
In this place on April 18, two Cuban teenagers drowned after being dragged by a sea current. The deceased were Elio Febrier Sain Felix, 15 years old, and Elizabeth Cisneros Bou, 17 years old. Both lived in the city of Santiago de Cuba.
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