A woman was found dead with stab
wounds in her home in the province of Florence town of Rufina
early on Saturday and an man confessed to killing a woman child
minder in Milan in the latest in an alarming spate of femicides
in Italy.
In the first case, investigators suspect that the 34-year-old
woman was murdered by her 37-year-old husband, who is in
Florence's Careggi hospital in a critical condition after he
threw himself from the second-floor of the apartment building in
an apparent attempt at suicide following the murder.
The dead woman leaves behind a two-year-old child.
In the second case Pablo Heriberto Gonzalez Rivas confessed to
killing Jhoanna Nataly Quintanilla, a 40-year-old from El
Salvador who had been reported missing, and hiding her body.
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