Matilde Muñoz, the Mallorcan woman who disappeared in Indonesia, has been found dead.

PalmPolice on the Indonesian island of Lombok have found the lifeless body of Matilde Muñoz, a 72-year-old resident of Palma. missing for two months, according to Efe. Police officer Putu Kardiyanto, from the Batulayar police station (West Lombok), has indicated that the case "will become a criminal search," without giving further details. Two people were arrested as the perpetrators of Muñoz's murder.

The body was found buried on a beach in an area close to where she went missing, in Lombok, as confirmed by Ignacio Vilariño, nephew of the missing woman.

As for the detainees, they are two men aged 34 and 30, residents of the town of Senggigi, where the hotel where Muñoz was staying on the island near Bali is located, said Lalu Eka Arya Mardiwinata, head of the Crimin Investigations Unit.

The statement also details that one of the men was arrested at his residence and another at Maratam City Hospital, also in Senggigi, while visiting family.

"Both admitted to planning the murder of the victim. They entered her room through a window," explains the police officer, who adds that, according to the confessions, they aimed to "steal Muñoz's belongings." The statement adds that the woman had been suffocated and that her body, which was taken to Bhayangkara Regional Police Hospital for examination, was found on the beach near her hotel.

Investigation

Indonesian police had launched an investigation into Muñoz's disappearance on Lombok, an island near the tourist resort of Bali, on August 13, after the Spanish Embassy in the country requested help by letter.

The first alert about her disappearance was raised by her friend Olga Marín Calonge on July 28 at the Sant Feliu de Guixols police station in Girona.

Matilde was allegedly last seen in early July by staff at the hotel where she was staying in Lombok, according to what they told the police, while the woman's inner circle claimed they had not heard from Matilde, who had been very active in messaging her loved ones since the end of June.

At the Bumi Aditya Hotel in Lombok, on the western coastal area of Senggigi, where she was staying, they also told the police that she sent them a message saying she was in Laos on July 6, a claim denied by the Indonesian Immigration authorities.

Born in Ferrol (A Coruña) in 1952 and based in Mallorca, María Matilde Muñoz Cazorla, a retiree who spent long periods of time traveling around Asia, had arrived on the island of Lombok in June.

The Spanish Embassy in Indonesia will provide consular assistance to the victim's family.

The Spanish Embassy in Indonesia is in constant contact with Matilde's family to provide them with "all the consular assistance" they need.