Student, 24, crushed to death after falling into bin...

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.

Image Credit: The Sun [Photo of Agostina Rubini Medina.]

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.

Image Credit: The Sun [Aerial view of a waste-to-energy plant.]

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.

Image Credit: The Sun [Missing person poster for Agostina Rubini Medina.]

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. Tragically, a witness was waiting for a bus shortly before her death and noticed her handbag placed neatly next to the container but thought nothing more of it.

Image Credit: The Sun [Row of recycling bins on a city street.]

The witness, who was at the bus stop at 12:12 am, reportedly did not hear her call for help or scream before the binmen arrived at 12:27 am to empty the bin. The truck, loaded with seven tonnes of rubbish, delivered its load at 2am where the mobile phone gave its last ping.

Image Credit: The Sun [A man cycles along a palm-tree lined promenade toward Palma Cathedral.]

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.”.