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Egypt urges Italy for report on citizen's death in Napoli

Xinhua, May 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it will ask the Italian authorities for urgent report on the death of an Egyptian citizen whose body was found late April on a railway line in the Italian city of Napoli.

The body of Mohamed Baher Sobhy Ibrahim was found late on April 30 dumped on a railway line in Napoli with initial bruises on the head and the jaw and a Napoli police station handed over the body to one of his relatives, said Foreign Ministry's Spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid in a statement.

"The Egyptian embassy in Rome follows up the issue so attentively and is about to send an urgent request to the Italian security authorities to demand an urgent report on the incident circumstances and the results of the initial autopsy," he added in the statement, noting the embassy was informed of the death case by the victim's relative on Tuesday.

Earlier in late April, the Egyptian public prosecutor ordered to open investigations on the recent deaths of two Egyptian citizens in the United States and Britain.

Egypt's Public Prosecutor Nabil Sadeq ordered the authorities to contact the two Western countries and get official copies of their investigation and forensic reports on the killing of the two Egyptian citizens.

Mohamed Mahmoud Roushdi was reported missing in Indiana state since April 20, 2016 and his body was found in a large dustbin with marks of torture on it, according to the Egyptian public prosecutor's office.

The body of another Egyptian citizen, Sherif Adel Habib Michael, 21, was found in a burnt car at a garage in South Hall in London.

Some British media said Michael was rescued from the garage in London that collapsed due to a massive fire, but he died of serious burns in a nearby hospital.

Egypt has been facing Western criticism over the murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni whose tortured, half-naked body was found on a roadside in Cairo nine days after his disappearance in late January.

The Regeni case has cast shadow on the Egypt-Italy relations as Italy and some other Western states hint at involvement of the Egyptian police in the killing of the 28-year-old PhD student, which Cairo firmly denied. Endit