Igarashi near an elevator on the seventh floor of the building with slash wounds on his neck, face and hands. The police reported that a janitor had found the body of Mr. Late today said no officials were available for comment. Capriolo that he had a "connection" to the Iranian Embassy in Rome. But the authorities said without elaboration that the assailant told Mr. The Milan police have made no arrests and offered no theory on the attacker. He survived the attack with what were described as superficial wounds. Translator of "The Satanic Verses," was stabbed in his apartment in Milan. On July 3, Ettore Capriolo, 61, the Italian Rushdie, the Indian-born author condemned to death by the Iranian authorities two years ago, has been assaulted. It is the second time this month that someone involved with the production of the novel by Mr. The police said he was stabbed several times on Thursday night and left in the hallway outside his office The translator, Hitoshi Igarashi, 44 years old, was an assistant professor of comparative culture who reportedly studied in Iran in the 1970's. OKYO, July 12 - The Japanese translator of "The Satanic Verses," by Salman Rushdie, was found slain today at a university Japanese Translator of Rushdie Book Found Slain By STEVEN R. Japanese Translator of Rushdie Book Found Slain
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