The Portuguese authorities are certain that a corpse found on Saturday in the Valencia de Alcántara area of Spain, is that of an elderly woman who had been missing since August.
The Alzheimer's sufferer was from the neighbouring municipality of Marvão in the district of Portalegre.
The GNR said today that, "there is still no confirmation," but the family identified clothing as that belonging to the 85-year-old.
Bones, found by hunters on Saturday, have been transported to the Legal Medicine Service of Cáceres (Spain) for DNA tests that will enable the corpse to be identified.
A 35-year-old man from Odiáxere, Lagos, reported missing by his family, has been located in France after his car broke down.
José Duarte Gonçalves de Oliveira had left home to take the rubbish out last Wednesday and disappeared, as did his car.
The vehicle broke down and he asked for help at a hotel from where he called his family. Relatives are on their way to France to bring him home.
de Oliveira was "going to throw the trash out and walk the dog." Moments after leaving, he returned to the front door and attached the dog’s lead to the door handle, got into the car and drove off.
Gonçalves de Oliveira had ID and some money but had left his mobile phone at home. The disappearance of the man, who works as a security guard in a local nursing home, occurred just before midnight last Wednesday, October 24.
José Duarte, married to Olga, a Ukrainian, has been deeply disturbed by the death of his mother-in-law last weekend.
