More information has come to light concerning incidents reported in previous online articles here.

Firstly, in the case of the two people who were run over on the Molvízar road, the two victims were a couple, one of whom, the man, was a foreigner, and the woman was Spanish.

They had been living in a breezeblock hut near one of the entrances to the village and were living from hand-to-mouth. The police, after inspecting where they had been staying, found several kinds of drugs for personal use.

The couple, for reasons unknown, had decided to lie on the road, both semi-dressed, in a spot on the road with little visibility. The driver had no chance of stopping and the occupants of the car had a first thought that they had gone over a large animal such as a dog.

They were distraught, to say the least, when they saw that there were two people underneath the car.

The second article was about the fire on wasteland near Camping Poniente in the beach area of Motril. The night of the fire (last Saturday) it was very windy and the fire was spreading very fast through the vegetation.

The police advised the camping-site owner to get the clients to leave the camping site in their vehicles (camper vans mainly) and park across the way on the extensive Playa de Poniente parking area, as a precaution, which they did.

It was decided to carry out the evacuation just in case the fire did eventually reach the camping site, which would have caused a stampede of vehicles through the only entrance to the site. Another reason for getting the vehicles out was because if they did go up it would have caused explosions from the fuel tanks and butane bottles.

Although the fire personnel managed to put the fire out, they stayed damping it down in case the wind started it up again. Some 100,000 square metres of shrubs and bushes were consumed by the fire.

The fire had started around 20.15h and it wasn’t until 08.30h the next morning that the campers were allowed to return although the fire wasn’t officially declared as extinguished, as it revived in the morning, until 13.00h.

Editorial comment: whenever there is a windy night, a pyromaniac who has still not been caught, torches wasteland on the Salobreña/Motril vega, knowing how difficult it will be to put out. So far nobody has died or been injured despite there being inhabited cortijos on the vega. Off with his pods!

(News: Motril/Molvizar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Vega, Pyromaniac, Camping De Poniente, Evacuated, Wasteland, Salobrena, Couple, Suicide, Foreign Male, Windy Night

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