(ANSA) - Grosseto, November 2 - A 20-year-old Egyptian man tried to rape a 50-year-old Italian woman in a car park in the centre of Grosseto in southern Tuscany at dawn on Thursday, local sources said Friday.

The man pushed the woman to the floor, punched her and tried to rape her but the woman wriggled away, defended herself and saw him off, police said.

She called the police who caught the man soon after.

The woman suffered a fracture to her face and is in hospital awaiting surgery.

The Egyptian, a regular immigrant, works in the city.

