An Italian student who went missing in Cairo has been found dead and an investigation has been launched into signs of torture on his body, Egyptian security officials have said.
Giulio Regeni, 28, disappeared on 25 January, the five-year anniversary of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule. His body was found dumped next to a road and has been taken to a Cairo morgue, a morgue worker and security officials said.
The Italian foreign ministry said on Wednesday that it believed that Regeni was dead. “The Italian government had learned of the probable tragic end to this affair,” the ministry said. It did not give any indication of how Regeni might have died.
A friend of Regeni said the student disappeared after leaving his home in an upper middle-class area to meet a friend.
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