(ANSA) - Rimini, March 27 - An Asian woman whose body was
found in a suitcase found on a dockside in Rimini harbour at the
weekend probably died of malnutrition, sources said after an
autopsy Monday. "She looked as if she'd come out of a labour
camp," they said. The autopsy found there had bene no "external
causes" of the death and ruled out asphyxiation or drowning. It
is therefore likely she was nearly dead when she was put into
the suitcase, sources said. It is now certain, police said, that
the body is not that of Xing Lei Li, a 36-year-old Chinese woman
who went missing earlier this month while on a cruise with her
Irish husband. As well as their heights not matching - the
Rimini woman was 1.7 metres tall, more than 20 cm taller than
Xing - there is the fact that the cruise ship stopped in places
more than 1,000 km from Rimini, and the fact that the woman in
the suitcase suffered "long" physical suffering, police said.
Suitcase woman 'died of malnutrition'
'Looked like labour camp inmate'