The Local Spain https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Two Spaniards face jail over snapping car crash corpse Two residents of La Seu d’Urgell in Catalonia face up to five years in jail after photographing a dead girl as she lay by the roadside following a traffic accident and posting it to social media. https://www.thelocal.es/20160226/two-spaniards-face-jail-over-photographing-corpse Fri, 26 Feb 2016 11:55:34 +0100 two-spaniards-face-jail-over-photographing-corpse Forgotten mummy found on Madrid university roof A routine inspection at Madrid's Complutense University has turned up an unusual find — a mummy and two skeletons. Nobody knows how they got there, or who they belong to. https://www.thelocal.es/20141111/madrid-mummy-found-on-university-roof Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:01:00 +0100 madrid-mummy-found-on-university-roof Gravedigger suspended for corpse photo gaffe A cemetery worker in a town in southern Spain has been suspended after a photo of him posing with an exhumed corpse went viral on social media. https://www.thelocal.es/20140911/gravedigger-suspended-for-corpse-photo-gaffe Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:49:00 +0200 gravedigger-suspended-for-corpse-photo-gaffe Cash-in-hand for 'corpse courses' at Spanish uni Staff at Madrid's Complutense University have admitted receiving off-the-record cash payments of up to €150 ($203) per day for preparing hundreds of dead bodies stored in the basement for use as teaching aids in unofficial, out-of-hours anatomy lessons. https://www.thelocal.es/20140617/cash-in-hand-for-corpse-courses-at-horror-uni Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:53:00 +0200 cash-in-hand-for-corpse-courses-at-horror-uni Spanish uni home to 250 'forgotten' corpses Hundreds of dead bodies, originally donated to science, have been left to sit at room temperature in the basement of a Spanish university for years, a major Spanish newspaper reported on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140519/spain-corpse-horror-madrid-university-bodies Mon, 19 May 2014 16:43:00 +0200 spain-corpse-horror-madrid-university-bodies Woman lived with father's corpse for a year A 37-year-old Catalan woman who recently passed away lived with her father’s decomposed body for over a year, police believe. https://www.thelocal.es/20131016/woman-lived-with-fathers-corpse-for-a-year Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:15:00 +0200 woman-lived-with-fathers-corpse-for-a-year