A STUDENT was crushed to death after falling into in a rubbish bin during a night out in Majorca.
Agostina Rubini, 24, had gone missing in Palma after partying with pals on the Spanish party island, sparking a massive police search.
Cops found skeletal remains at a waste plant after the young student’s phone pinged.
And now police have confirmed she was crushed to death after accidentally passing out in a rubbish container.
The Argentinian national is thought to have “voluntarily entered a (rubbish) container” where she lost consciousness, according to police reports.
That bin was collected by a lorry which drove to the Son Reus treatment plant.
The police stopped activity at the landfill site and began a month-long search for the missing student.
After looking through more than 60,000 tons of waste, more than 1,000 skeletal remains were found.
Specialists from the Institute of Legal Medicine of the Balearic Islands determined that two of the remains analysed were human.
The human remains were sent to a laboratory for DNA extraction to be compared with DNA from the missing woman’s relatives.
After a thorough analysis the police have confirmed that the remains found belong to Agostina.
Agostina’s mobile phone data has been used to reconstruct her movements on the night of her disappearance.
Agostina was last seen just before midnight on October 2 when she left friends she was drinking with.
Police believe she was waiting for a bus around midnight to head home to Palma Nova, southwest of the main city.
They believe she climbed into the bin after dropping her phone and fell unconscious.
Unfortunately, a bystander was present at a bus stop just before she passed away and observed her purse carefully positioned beside the trash can, but didn’t pay much attention to it.
The onlooker, who happened to be at the bus stop at 12:12 am, apparently did not hear her cry out or shout for assistance before the sanitation workers showed up at 12:27 am to dispose of the garbage.
The truck, loaded with seven tonnes of rubbish, delivered its load at 2am where the mobile phone gave its last ping.
The investigating homicide police said it is “impossible to survive inside a rubbish truck” as there is little oxygen.
Police chief Fernando Reboyras said: “She was a thin woman who had difficulty consuming alcohol.
“This was made worse by medication she was taking.”
