Egypt official: Tortured Italian student died 'slow death'

Friday, February 5, 2016

CAIRO -- The body of an Italian graduate student who disappeared last month has been found with multiple stab wounds, cigarette burns and other signs of torture and a "slow death" on a roadside on the outskirts of Cairo, an Egyptian prosecutor said Thursday.

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