Femicide in the province of Palermo.
A man stabbed his partner to death and then took his own life in Villabate, a town on the outskirts of the Sicilian capital.
The tragedy occurred in the couple's apartment in via Giovanna d'Arco.
According to an initial reconstruction, the man first raged against the woman and then committed suicide with the same knife used for the crime.
The victim is Giovanna Bonsignore, 46, the companion who killed her Salvatore Patinella, 41.
After the alarm, the carabinieri of the Misilmeri company, the 118 personnel and the firefighters intervened on the spot.
The men of the Arma have started investigations to shed light on what happened, starting with the motive.
From what transpires between the two, disagreements had been ongoing for some time and the crime would have occurred during yet another quarrel.
(Unioneonline/lf)