spain was shocked after learning about the case of a grandfather and his 22-month-old grandson, reported missing last Wednesday. As soon as her relatives noticed her absence, they insisted on the authorities and through social networks to find her whereabouts.
The older adult, identified as Antonio Blanco Gila 55-year-old retired farm foreman, was out with his grandson, Daniel, whom she cared for while her parents worked. According to the newspaperThe Spanish,they were very close. For Daniel, Antonio was his “grandfather of the soul”.
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However, when it was 10 pm and they did not appear, the family filed a complaint for the disappearances at the Civil Guard post in Manzanilla.
The heavy rain complicated the search and it was not until last Thursday that the police found them aboard the older adult’s vehicle. Both were unconscious.
The car where Antonio and his grandson Daniel were found. PHOTO: Special
Antonio He was transferred to the Infanta Elena Hospital in Huelva, but he was already dead. According to the autopsy, he died around 8:00 p.m. on the same day he disappeared after suffering a crisis due to his diabetes and losing consciousness.
According to the newspaperThe country,who quoted one of the grandfather’s brothers, he suffered from anxiety and depressionand had to leave his job due to health problems.
Daniel spent at least 16 hours locked in the car next to the body of his dead grandfather and was in a coma for hypoglycemia e hypothermia. He was transferred by helicopter to the ICU of the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville.
The doctors explained to the family that the little boy had brain damage. This Tuesday, a spokesman reported that the baby had died. The boy was the only child of a young farming couple.
Official mourning for the death of Antonio and Daniel
The family looked for them in all known places, but authorities believe that Antonio, feeling ill, turned off the road and stopped in a remote area difficult to see while it was raining. The hours that Daniel spent without eating, in the cold and without ventilation, were fatal for him.
The council of the municipality of Manzanilla decreed two days of official mourning and suspended until this Thursday all public events.
The family decided to donate the organs to little Daniel. “It comforts us that he helps other children,” a relative of the mother toldThe Spanish.