Italy: Student Suffered 'Inhuman, Animal-Like' Violence

An Italian minister says a second autopsy on the body of an Italian found slain in Egypt reveals that the doctoral student suffered "inhuman, animal-like" violence. Official results, still partial, are being relayed to Rome prosecutors who are investigating Giulio Regeni's death as a murder, reports the AP. Italian media, reporting on the autopsy completed Saturday night after the body arrived in Rome, say coroners have concluded that Regeni's neck was twisted or struck, breaking a vertebra and leaving him unable to breathe.

Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said Sunday on TV that he saw the autopsy results and Regeni suffered "something inhuman, animal-like, an unacceptable violence." Italy's ambassador in Cairo has said Regeni had been badly beaten and showed torture marks. Alfano said it's in Egypt's interest to cooperate in the investigation. (More Italy stories.)