Family tragedy in Sarmeola di Rubano, in the province of Padua.

An 88-year-old man, Stelvio Cerqueni, shot his daughter Dorjana to death at the height of a quarrel. Then he turned the weapon towards himself, committing suicide.

The carabinieri found the lifeless bodies of the two, both born in Serbia, in front of the house where the 61-year-old woman lived with her husband, with whom she ran a furniture factory.

The alarm was raised by relatives upon arrival at the house: the 61-year-old, just today, had organized a lunch for her birthday and her father, from Friuli Venezia Giulia, had also arrived for the party. Then there would be an altercation between the two, apparently not the first.

The military has launched investigations to shed full light on the matter, in particular on the motive.

According to reports, the 61-year-old married Cerqueni's business partner - who had become a widower - with whom she also had a son.

(Unioneonline / lf)