Student tragically died after falling into trash bin while trying to find phone before being crushed and burned – World News

Police in Mallorca have said a woman is believed to have died after falling into a rubbish bin.

Agostina Rubini Medina has been missing in Mallorca for more than two weeks after she disappeared on October 2 at the end of a night out with friends in Palma.

Officials have said they believe the student tried to get something from a garbage can and fainted, after which the can was emptied into a garbage truck where she was crushed to death in the early hours of the next morning.

At a press conference last Thursday (October 17), Spanish police said they feared she had been crushed in the truck, before her remains were burned at a waste treatment center where the truck was traveling.

They had used her mobile phone signal to track her movements the night she went missing and a witness told them they had seen the woman’s handbag next to the rubbish bin about 15 minutes before it was emptied into the truck.

Police fear that student Agostina Rubini Medina died after falling into a waste bin after a night out. (NF/News

Investigators are now looking for evidence of the student’s DNA at the landfill in an attempt to confirm what happened to her.

Deputy police chief Fernando Reboyras said: “She was a thin woman who had difficulty consuming alcohol. This was aggravated by the medication she was taking.”

He added that the investigation shows that Medina had been waiting for a bus around midnight when something of hers fell into the trash and she went inside to retrieve it.

A witness at the bus stop at 12:12 p.m. said they saw the 24-year-old student’s handbag but heard no cries for help or screams from the trash bin.

The garbage collectors arrived 15 minutes later, at 12:27 a.m. they removed the trash from the bin and threw it into their truck, where they believed she had been crushed to death.

Investigators believe the 24-year-old fell into the garbage can, passed out and was then crushed to death in a garbage truck. (NF/News

The garbage truck arrived at the landfill at 12:52 p.m. where the woman’s phone went dead.

Investigators have said it is “impossible to survive in a garbage truck” and that the 24-year-old would have died during the journey to the dump.

According to the Mallorca Daily Bulletin, officers said at last week’s press conference that the woman was last seen at 11.57pm on October 2, where they believed she planned to wait for a bus.

Ángel Ruiz, head of the National Police’s homicide unit, said investigators are confident “she never took that bus.”

They also report that the student’s phone last rang at 2:59 a.m. and that skeletal remains have been found and sent for analysis.