CATANIA — A group of four Egyptians were injured in the Catanian commune of San Cono after taking severe beatings to their heads and bodies from a group of three Italians.

 The Egyptians, aged between 16 and 17, were driving back from a weekly market fair when two cars pulled up in front of them. Three men got out, and began to threaten and beat the teenagers with baseball bats and a gun. 

 The attackers, 18-year-old Antonino Spitale and brothers Giacomo and Davide Severo, aged 32 and 33 respectively, has since been arrested by the Carabinieri, after a video taken by one victim revealed the incident.

 "Don't come back, and stay away from women," the agressors were filmed shouting. As was later revealed by the Carabinieri, the eldest attacker used an air pistol to intimidate the victims, and victims say the ambush took place on flimsy grounds.

 One of the casualties is still in intensive care in Catania’s Garibaldi-Nesima airport after sustaining life-threating injuries. Doctors have bled the patient and he has been declared “in a pharmaceutical coma.”

 A recent scan has revealed that “the casualty’s haematoma [an internal blood clot] has been completely removed. [On Monday], he will undergo a neurological analysis.”

 Searches are still being carried out to find out the identity of the other two men who were present at the attack. 

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