(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 28 - It will be the autopsy to establish with certainty the causes of the death of Maddalena Urbani, 21-year-old daughter of the doctor-hero victim of Sars.
Carlo Urbani was the WHO doctor who was a victim of Sars, the atypical pneumonia that he helped to discover.
From the first investigations, the young woman, found dead yesterday in an apartment in the Cassia area of Rome, probably died from an overdose of heroin, as some newspapers report today.
Police arrested the owner of the house for drug possession.
To be determined whether it was he who supplied it.
A small amount of heroin was seized at home.
The man, arrested by the policemen of the Flying Squad of Rome and of the Flaminio police station, was currently under house arrest for drug offenses.
No obvious signs of violence were found on the body of the 21-year-old.
The apartment where the girl died was seized.
According to what was reconstructed, the 21-year-old had gone to that house the day before.
The prosecutor of Rome is investigating the matter.
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