Cameroonian hits stranger on head with iron bar (2)

(ANSA) - Milan, January 24 - A 32-year-old Cameroonian national has been arrested for attempted homicide after allegedly hitting a stranger waiting at a Milan tram stop with an iron bar for no reason late on Tuesday.
    The victim, a 31-year-old Serbian man who legally resides in Italy and does not have a criminal record, was taken to the northern city's Policlinico hospital in a serious condition with numerous fractures to the skull.
    A young woman called the Carabinieri police after noticing the alleged assailant acting aggressively after getting off the tram. The assailant hit the Serb three times, twice on the ground, police said.
    The Cameroonian has a record of violent offences, they said, including a definitive sentence for bodily harm and resisting arrest.
    Some passers-by tried vainly to disarm him after the assault but he fended them off and went on to vandalise a number of motor scooters.