Body of Italian student found in Cairo flown back to Italy

The Italian ambassador's vehicle leaves the Italian Hospital in Cairo after a a private mass at the church in the hospital complex for slain Italian graduate student Giulio Regeni on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge University PhD candidate who had been researching labor rights in Egypt, went missing on Jan. 25, the fifth anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. His body was found Wednesday bearing signs of torture. (AP Photo/Belal Darder) The Italian ambassador's vehicle leaves the Italian Hospital in Cairo after a a private mass at the church in the hospital complex for slain Italian graduate student Giulio Regeni on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge University PhD candidate who had been researching labor rights in Egypt, went missing on Jan. 25, the fifth anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. His body was found Wednesday bearing signs of torture. (AP Photo/Belal Darder)

By Associated Press February 6, 2016 1 min read

CAIRO (AP) – Egyptian airport officials say the body of the Italian student who was found this week in a Cairo suburb was flown back to Italy.

Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni told reporters in Amsterdam Saturday that the body of 28-year-old Giulio Regeni will be transported to Rome and eventually to the Italian city of Trieste.

Italy’s ANSA news agency reported that Italian prosecutors have ordered an autopsy as part of the investigation into Regeni’s death.

Regeni disappeared on Jan. 25, the anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 uprising. He was found this week with multiple stab wounds, cigarette burns and other signs of torture on the outskirts of Cairo, Egyptian officials said.

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