Police searched Roma camps in
Rome's suburbs in the early hours Friday for two Roma minors who
fled on foot and vanished after a speeding car they were using
to escape police careened through a group of nine people,
killing a 44-year-old woman, police said.
As officers combed the encampents in the areas of Monachina
and Casal Lumbroso between Thursday night and Friday morning
amid growing public outrage, the sister of one of the two boys
was quoted as saying "my brother will give himself up this
afternoon".
The fugitive's family made an appeal Thursday for the
teenager to give himself up.
Investigators meanwhile examined closed-circuit television
footage of the accident in the Battistini area but discovered
there were no shots of the fleeing teenagers, the police sources
said.
Police have not been able to confirm a statement by the
father of one of the boys, who is aged 17, claiming that he was
at the wheel of the speeding car.
Police agents from the Rome flying squad are handling the
delicate investigation, the sources said.
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