Authorities in Southern California found additional human remains on Thursday, a day after a human foot was found on the shoreline where an overturned ship carrying two fishermen washed up earlier this week.
As Fox Los Angeles reports, officers from the Palos Verdes Estates Police Department responded to a call at 8:20 a.m. on Christmas Day when someone saw the appendage.
On Thursday, authorities found a second human leg and a thigh bone, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The remains have not been identified. Palos Verdes Estates Police Capt. Aaron Belda told the newspaper that the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office will try to identify the remains found and determine whether they are connected to the boat capsizing incident that occurred on Dec. 23.
The two men had gone fishing in a small boat on Monday afternoon and were reported missing the next day.
The U.S. Coast Guard said their boat was found capsized near a rocky shoreline in Palos Verdes Estates. A search operation was launched by the Coast Guard on Christmas Eve, but was suspended on Wednesday due to dangerous conditions, The Times reports.
Last month, a human skull and bones washed ashore in the same area where the most recent remains were found.
According to the Times, Belda said it was unclear whether the recently found femur was connected to that case.
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