– It was actually the most shocking. We sat down straight away and talked about it, says 19-year-old Mathilde Rebnord. She and her friends are all students at Active Education in Malaga, in the area where Anne Mathea (21) was found dead last week. – We are thinking of the next of kin because we know someone who has gone here before. We are starting to think about them, says 21-year-old Viktoria Strand Korsnes. They say that they know what it’s like to be so far away from family. The students live in the town of Furiengerola. Myramar is a district in that city, and the name of an apartment hotel in the district. Photo: Frode Fjerdingstad / news – It comes very close when there is someone who has been where we are now. It could suddenly be any of those girls. You get a very nasty feeling about it, says 22-year-old Ludvig Skrøvsetn. They have talked about never going anywhere alone. The students receive follow-up from the seamen’s church and the school. – We thought we might take a trip this week. There are very good people there, at least that’s the impression we got. They are there for us, says Rebnord. Torremolinos is a popular holiday town with over 68,000 inhabitants on Spain’s sunny coast in the Andalucía region. Anne Mathea Morken was found dead here. Photo: Frode Fjerdingstad / news Studied in the area Kripos has assisted in the identification of the 21-year-old and notification of next of kin. – She was identified based on fingerprints by the Spanish police, said Chief of Staff Hans-Peder Torgersen in Kripos to news on Tuesday afternoon. On the night of Thursday, she was found dead outdoors in Torremolinos in Spain. She must have lived there for around a year, according to the Spanish National Police. FOUND DEAD: Anna Mathea Morken is said to have been a student in the area previously. Photo: Private Ola Furseth in Active Education says she studied at the school in Fuengirola. – This was very sad news to receive. It is true that the person in question is a former student with us, but it is something back in time, says Ola Furseth in Active Education. He says that she studied at the school in the fall of 2021, and continued as an online student in Norway through the spring semester of 2022. Furseth says they do not know what she has done or where she has lived after she finished studying with them. – It was unknown to us that she has been staying in Torremolinos. The woman was found dead on this street corner in Torremolinos last week. Photo: Frode Fjerdingstad / news On Tuesday afternoon, Kripos stated that Anne Mathea Morken from Ringebu is the woman who was found dead in Malaga on the night of Thursday last week. Has opened the youth center The home municipality has set up a crisis team and in collaboration with the church opened the youth center on Tuesday evening. – It obviously affects all of us here in the village. It is primarily the relatives who are affected by the tragedy, so we try to stand up from the church as best we can, says Terje Elvestad, parish priest in Ringebu. The youth center in Ringebu. Photo: Geir Olav Slåen / news He says they have had ongoing contact with the family every day and are trying to support as best they can. – There are a lot of sad, young people in Ringebu tonight, says municipal director Håvard Gangsås. – It’s just terribly sad, says municipal director Håvard Gangsås. Photo: Geir Olav Slåen / news He says the municipality will follow up the family and relatives closely in the future. – I hope everyone can show some consideration towards Anne Mathea and her relatives and others, so that the family gets the necessary peace and gathers together in such grief as they have now experienced. The municipality postpones the municipal council meeting due to the death. Photo: Ringebu municipality/screenshot Was found without ID papers The deceased woman was found on the night of Thursday by a group of young people passing by. The bag next to her was empty and she had no identification papers on her either. The police cannot say anything about how long the woman has been dead. The day after the discovery, the police secured a surveillance video from the Sapphira beauty salon, which is located in the same street as she was found. Relatives were notified on Monday evening. In Spain, the case has been transferred from local police to the violence section of the national police. According to news, the 21-year-old last had contact with his friends on Sunday 10 September. The Spanish police are waiting for the autopsy report. As of now, no one has been arrested for the death.
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