{"id":82939,"date":"2026-02-18T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/body-found-at-sea-near-fomm-ir-ri\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:43:00","slug":"body-found-at-sea-near-fomm-ir-ri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/body-found-at-sea-near-fomm-ir-ri\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found at sea near Fomm ir-Ri&#295;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Body found at sea near Fomm ir-Ri&#295;<\/p>\n<p>A dead body was found at sea near Fomm ir-Ri&#295; and brought ashore on Wednesday afternoon, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the body was spotted at around 3:30pm and brought ashore by an Armed Forces of Malta patrol boat at Marfa.<\/p>\n<p>The police were not able to identify the body because it is in an advanced state of decomposition.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Philip Galea Farrugia is leading an inquiry while an autopsy is expected to take place in order to establish the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-02-18\/local-news\/Body-found-at-sea-near-Fomm-ir-Rih-6736287323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Body found at sea near Fomm ir-Ri&#295;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Body found at sea near Fomm ir-Ri&#295; A dead body was found at sea near Fomm ir-Ri&#295; and brought ashore on Wednesday afternoon, police said in a statement. Police said that the body was spotted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-82939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}