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Elderly woman dies after being stabbed by husband

Victim had just returned from hospital in semi-vegetative state

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 25 - An elderly woman left in critical condition after being stabbed by her husband on Sunday died early on Monday morning, investigative sources have said.
    77-year-old Manuela Bittante passed away at the Ca' Foncello hospital in Treviso in the northern Veneto region.
    She had returned home from hospital in a semi-vegetative state on Saturday evening after suffering a stroke in July.
    "I did it, for me the situation had become unbearable," said her husband, 74, on turning himself in to carabinieri police immediately after the stabbing.
    The man was arrested and is now under pre-trial detention in Treviso jail. (ANSA).
   

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