Official quits after calling Hajj victims natural selection

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 2 - A centre right councillor has quit just days into her term at Conegliano near Treviso after calling the hundreds of people who died of heat exposure at the annual Hajj Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca victims of "natural selection".
    The woman, Silvia Marcon, elected on a civic list last month, made the comment on the Facebook page of a rightwing League party official, the anti-immigrant group she belonged to until recently.
    Conegliano Mayor Fabio Chiesa said Marcon had apologised for her "unfortunate" remark. (ANSA).