The body of a young woman found
in the Tor Sapienza area of Rome early Friday is that of a
20-year-old Chinese student Zhang Yao Natain, who disappeared in
the area Monday, police said after the body was ID'd by her
parents.
She is believed to have been run over by a train while
chasing thieves who stole her bag, they said.
Zhang came to Rome to frequent the Fine Arts Academy
(Accademia dele Belle Arti) and went missing after going to
Rome's immigration office to get her student's residency permit.
Initially police suspected a kidnapping for ransom.
Police said they had received a report overnight that there
was a body lying in a bush near the railway lines.
A CCTV camera on a factory in Rome's Via Salviati district
has filmed possibly the last moments in the life of Zhang,
police said.
Footage from the CCTV camera reportedly confirmed what Yao
told a friend on the phone shortly before she went missing and
stopped responding to calls - that she was chasing the men who
had snatched her bag.
Yao was possibly hit by a train after she started running on
the trackbed, investigators said.
Forensic experts who have examined her body said her injuries
are compatible with wounds from a violent impact.
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