Spanish police are now hunting for the driver who struck the Norwegian 17-year-old on the motorway near Mijas in Spain. The teenager was last seen at a nightclub in Puerto Banús before the accident, a 20-minute drive away.
Nikoline (surname unknown) was on holiday with her stepfather, who lives in Fuengirola on Spain’s Costa del Sol, when she was reported missing to the police and through social media on Monday.
SOS Desaparecidos, a Spanish organisation that works on missing-person cases, was also brought in.
Her mother issued a missing-person appeal with a photograph of her daughter and the heading ‘SOS’ when the teenager could not be found in the early hours of Monday after celebrating Norway’s football victory over Brazil together with other Norwegian youths.
The family also searched for her themselves in the harbour area of Puerto Banús before involving the police. The young woman had been on holiday on the Costa del Sol since 19 June and was due to return to Norway yesterday.
The 17-year-old was last seen wearing a pink dress with an Arabic pattern at the Funky Buddha nightclub in Puerto Banús. At around 03.30, a female friend of hers went to the lavatory, and when she returned, Nikoline was gone, the mother tells the local newspaper SUR.
The last position shown by her mobile phone was a street a few metres from the nightclub.
The local press in Spain reported that same morning that a woman had been found dead after being struck on the A-7 motorway, which runs along the coast between Fuengirola and Marbella.
The fatal accident occurred in front of several eyewitnesses at 05.20 on Monday morning, between Calahonda and Mijas. One of the witnesses has stated that a lorry caused the accident and continued without stopping.
It then became known half a day later that the deceased woman was the missing 17-year-old.
The scene lies around a 20-minute drive from Puerto Banús. The motorway has two dual-lane carriageways and a fenced central reservation and is not a natural place at which to cross the road. There is a vehicle and pedestrian underpass nearby.
The Guardia Civil has opened an investigation to clarify how the accident occurred and to identify and locate the driver of the lorry. The police have not said whether they are working to find people who may have been with Nikoline from the time she left her friends until she was killed.
The Norwegian 17-year-old was struck and killed on the A-7 motorway, close to the boundary between Calahonda and La Cala de Mijas in Spain. (Photo: Google Maps)
Surveillance cameras at a nearby petrol station may help shed light on why Nikoline was out in the carriageway.
– Whenever she is out late, she usually keeps in contact with us, the mother told Spanish media on Monday afternoon, when the missing-person appeal was issued.
Puerto Banús is the principal nightlife destination on the Costa del Sol and can no longer be characterised as safe. The Marbella and Puerto Banús area is a European hotspot for drug dealing and the illegal importation of narcotics.
The area attracts international drug networks, resulting in an increase in cartel-inspired violence and contract killings.
Last year, Document wrote the following after an Afghan executed a Swedish gangster rapper of North African descent in broad daylight in Puerto Banús:
The crime scene is located in the Nueva Andalucía district, known for its high-priced luxury developments, luxury restaurants, golf areas, yachts and luxury cars. The area is among the haunts of the elite of the drug cartels from, among other places, the Balkans, Ukraine, Morocco, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria – and now also Sweden – who have established themselves on Spain’s Costa del Sol, with Marbella as the epicentre.
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