An individual has died on Saturday afternoon after being hit inside a busy building in Torremolinos. Some facts for which a man who had to be transferred to a health center has been arrested.

Sources close to the case have informed EL MUNDO that the event occurred around 19:45 inside an occupied dwelling, where there was a brawl between two of the inhabitants due to circumstances under investigation.

During the fight, the victim allegedly received a heavy blow to the head with a blunt object - a bar, according to other sources - that left him unconscious. The alleged attacker also suffered injuries as a result of the confrontation.

Agents who have moved to the place have been practicing resuscitation work on the victim until the arrival of health services. But finally the doctors have only been able to certify the death of man.

The National Police has taken charge of the investigation and detained the other individual involved in the fight, 50 years old and Moroccan, as the alleged perpetrator of a murder crime. He was transferred to a medical center to be treated for the wounds he presented.

Experts from the Scientific Police and the judicial delegation, who authorized the removal of the body, and its subsequent transfer to the headquarters of the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) of Malaga, once the eye inspection was carried out, were transferred to the home.

Black year

With this last case, and with only a few days left until 2019, there are at least 25 violent deaths recorded in the province of Malaga, becoming the worst year of the last decade.

According to the crime balance sheet of the third quarter of the Ministry of Interior, in Malaga 17 homicides or murders were committed from January to September, although if we only add the last eight violent deaths that have transcended the figure rises to at least 25. Four more cases that the 21 crimes that were counted in 2018 and that until then was the worst record of recent times.

Except for 2017 and 2013, with 9 and 13 violent deaths, respectively, the province of Malaga has always exceeded the fortnight of homicides and annual murders, with most of the exercises approaching twenty.

Although government statistics highlight a dangerous rebound, the Central Executive is calm and has described as "isolated incidents" the adjustments of accounts that have occurred on the Costa del Sol in recent weeks.

The last case sounded was that of a young Slovenian whose machine-gunned body was found on a beach in Mijas. The perpetrators used a long automatic weapon and the evidence suggests that he was cited at the scene to be executed.

On November 21, shooting or 40-year-old Englishman linked to marijuana trafficking in the Riviera del Sol urbanization of Mijas died. Six days after an individual died and another was seriously injured by gunfire in the area of ​​Alvarito Playa de Marbella and almost two weeks before a man of French origin and 39 years received at least three bullet impacts in the thorax and abdomen in the vicinity of the Calahonda campsite. Previously, a corpse with numerous gunshot wounds was found on the side of the road between the municipality of Marbella and Istán.

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