The body of shellfish gatherer José Esteban Acuña Fernández, who disappeared on the north coast of Lanzarote since last Monday, has been located lifeless in the Las Escamas area, near Caletón Blanco at 11.55 am this Friday. This was reported by the Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium at noon on January 31.
After five days since his disappearance, the 61-year-old man, known as Pepe, the gravedigger, was located very close to Las Cocinas beach, the area where he went to look for winkles at noon last Monday. After three and a half hours without giving any signs, his partner contacted Emergencies alerting that he did not usually take so long when he went shellfish gathering and that he had not taken his mobile phone. The next day a relative filed the complaint at the police station.
According to the Emergency Consortium to La Voz, which has been combing the area in a large device since then, the man was found by his brother. Emergencies is considering the hypothesis that the body has been trapped in a cave on the coast and the sea has taken it out these days.
A large deployment formed by firefighters from the Security and Emergency Consortium, collaborated with Emerlan, the Civil Guard, a GES helicopter and a Maritime Rescue helicopter since Monday to try to find José Esteban Acuña. In addition, devices were mobilized on the north coast of Fuerteventura to locate him.

Along with the emergency devices, people close to the deceased, who resided in the town of Guatiza, had traveled for days through the area of the disappearance to collaborate in the search.
The extraction was carried out by the Emerlan Height Rescue Unit, which transported the body along a path to the nearest parking area, according to Emerlan. At the moment, the Civil Guard is moving to the place to wait for the removal of the corpse by the judicial authority.