The body of footballer David García Mitogo is found in the Avia river (Ourense)

OURENSE, 23 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Members of the Ribadavia Supramunicipal Emergency Group (Ourense) have located the lifeless body of footballer David García Mitogo in the Avia river, who has been missing since Thursday, May 11.

The body of the 32-year-old Atlético Arnoia player was found at around 10:20 a.m. this Tuesday morning in A Reza, in the Ourense municipality of Arnoia, according to sources from the Civil Guard.

The body appeared in the vicinity of the A Barca bridge over the Avia, an area in which the search operation was focused in the last hours after a down jacket that could be the missing person was located.

The footballer was last seen on the morning of Thursday, May 11, in a bar in Arnoia, the town where he lived.

At first, the operation focused on the bridge over the Avia river, which connects the Ourense municipalities of Arnoia and Ribadavia, where the soccer player's mobile was located, who sent a series of messages to his relatives hours before he lost it. the trace.

Born in Equatorial Guinea, Mitogo trained in the youth ranks of Club Deportivo La Morenica and Sociedad Deportiva Ponferradina and spent a good part of his career with Galician teams such as O Barco, SD Compostela, As Somozas and Arenteiro.