The body of a missing Italian graduate student has been found on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, one week after his disappearance.
Italy's foreign ministry says Giulio Regeni's body was found Wednesday in a Cairo suburb along the road that leads to the city of Alexandria. He was covered with burns and other wounds, indicating that he may have been tortured.
The ministry summoned the Egyptian ambassador to Rome to demand "maximum cooperation" in the investigation of Regeni's death, including the involvement of Italian experts in the probe.
The 28-year-old Regeni was a graduate student at Britain's Cambridge University, and was in Egypt gathering research for his doctoral thesis. Authorities say he was going to meet a friend in downtown Cairo when he disappeared on January 25, the fifth anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising that ousted longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak from power.