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By SurfersVillage.com
12th February 2007
Surf-Travel
Two Italian surfers stoned to death on Cape Verde Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 12 February, 2007 : - - ROME - Three Italian women were brutally attacked while vacationing on a resort island off the coast of West Africa, dragged into the woods, pelted with stones and left for dead at the bottom of a hole, the sole survivor said Saturday. Preliminary autopsy results found the victims, aged 28 and 33, died as a result of head injuries from blunt and sharp objects, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported. Cape Verde police said official autopsy results were expected to be released Sunday. The women were part of a surfing group that arrived in the islands last Sunday for a weeklong vacation, said Italy‘s honorary consul in Cape Verde, Luigi Zirpoli. The survivor — whom Italian news reports identified as a 17-year-old named Agnese — suffered fractures and needed 18 stitches in her head, Zirpoli said. She said the attackers sprayed the women with something and immobilized them before taking them to the woods where a hole had been dug in the ground. Speaking in a stunned voice, she said they were pelted with stones and she blacked out. When she awoke, she climbed out of the hole and walked down a road until she found help. The story of the attack has shocked Italians, many of whom consider the archipelago a paradise for beachgoers and windsurfers. Italian Premier Romano Prodi said he was "stunned" and "aghast" by the killings, the Italian news agency Apcom reported. New! B2B News ASBE-Surf | Receive News-Alerts
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