Italian police find bullet-riddled body of Nigerian woman in pine forest

 

This story made the news on Italian newspapers on Wednesday. The Italian police said they were called to a scene of a crime where they found the bullet-riddled body of a woman near a bicycling trail in woods between the Tuscan cities of Lucca and Pisa. The body was discovered by tourists in a pine forest near Torre del Lago in Lucca province. The woman had five gunshot wounds.

The body has been identified as that of a Nigerian woman aged 46. But the police didn't give her name. Italian police said they are investigating her murder and hope that an autopsy will help them find traces of her killer. The police say they believe the murdered woman was a prostitute.