A Chinese exchange student in Italy was killed by a passing
train as she chased robbers who stole her designer handbag.
Twenty-year-old art student Zhang Yao just renewed her visa
in Tor Sapienza, Rome, when someone stole her designer handbag worth €1,000 ($1,062).
She was sitting on a bus stop bench in front of the Via Patini immigration
office.
Zhang then called Zou Xiao, a friend, and told that she was
chasing not just one, but three men. Zou claimed that she tried to stop Zhang
from pursuing the thieves as they only took her handbag; her documents were
safe.
Zou quoted Zhang as saying, “My bag has been stolen”, “Help,
I am being attacked”, and “I’m lost, I don’t know where I am.”
But it seems Zhang was determined to get her handbag back
and chased the thieves onto a nearby railway. It did not take long before Zou
heard a rustling sound and a noise akin to another person grabbing the phone,
the Italian Insider said.
Staff from an industrial warehouse close to the immigration
office and the railway reported hearing screams last Monday, the day when Zhang
went missing. They reviewed their CCTV footage, found a young woman on the
railway embankment and tipped the police.
However, cops found nothing.
It was already Friday when Zhang’s body was located
underneath bushes close to the railway, 800 meters from the immigration office.
Li Fan, director of the consular section in Rome’s Chinese Embassy, confirmed
that the exchange student’s body was found on the day, Xinhua reported.
Zhang came from northern China’s Inner Mongolia. She moved
to Rome in March 2016 to attend the Academy of Fine Arts.
Source: nextshark
Source: nextshark
