Al Bano's DNA taken for new Ylenia probe

(ANSA) - Brindisi, November 17 - A sample of the DNA of pop singer Al Bano has been taken at the request of American judicial authorities to compare with the body of a woman killed in Florida in 1996 whose description apparently fits the crooner's missing daughter Ylenia Carrisi, judicial sources said Tuesday.
    The new development in the inquiry into the 1994 disappearance followed testimony by a truck driver who said he killed a girl met at a gas station who called herself Suzanne, which was the name the daughter of Bano and singer and actress Romina Power used during a brief sojourn in the United States.
    The girl last was seen in New Orleans. Now a sheriff from Palm Beach county is carrying out inquiries on the body of a girl killed in 1996 whose body was not identified at the time.
    A reconstruction of the dead girl's face by an expert suggests a clear resemblance to Ylenia, judicial sources say.