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Couple probed over tourist's death in Naples

Parents of kids suspected of throwing statue that killed woman

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 19 - Prosecutors in Naples have placed under investigation the parents of two children suspected of throwing a statue from their home's balcony that hit in the head a 30-year-old tourist, Chiara Jaconis, who was fatally injured, judicial sources said Thursday.
    State attorneys are probing the couple on manslaughter and non-vigilance charges.
    The charges were officially pressed ahead of the autopsy.
    Meanwhile police on Wednesday examined a video showing the incident in which one of the children allegedly threw the statue from the balcony, investigative sources said.
    Jaconis, who was in Naples on holiday with her partner to celebrate her 30th birthday, died on Tuesday as a consequence of traumatic brain injuries caused by the falling statue.
    The woman was being treated at the Ospedale del Mare in the port city where she was taken after the incident Sunday.
    She was hit by the statue while walking in one of the most famous areas of Naples - the Quartieri Spagnoli (Spanish Districts) - before heading to the airport to take a flight back home. (ANSA).
   

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