Agrigento, 23 May 2024 – The man who had surrendered after 7 hours barricaded in the house after attacking his wife and children. Both children – aged 3 and 7 – are hospitalized in serious condition in Palermo hospital. The tragedy occurred in an apartment in via Puccini a Cianciana, an inland town in the province of Agrigento. The 7-year-old boy, who was hit by several blows to the abdomen and chest, was transported to the hospital in serious condition by air ambulance; the younger sister is intubated and has a cerebral hemorrhage.
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“When we transferred him by air ambulance to Palermo – a 118 source explained to AGI – the child was alert and conscious but had a perforated lung; we left the little girl in plastic surgery as she had several wounds on her face and in the ear area.”
His wife, who is not in danger of dying, she was admitted to the Ribera hospital.
The man, Daniele Alba, 35 year old mechanic, he was arrested: he had barricaded himself in the house after that his wife had managed to escape his fury. After 7 hours he finally surrendered to the Carabinieri, who were present on site with their own negotiator from the operations department.
At the origin of the event there was a quarrel in which the woman had reiterated to the man the decision to separate from him. The police and firefighters were on site.
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The investigations are coordinated by the Sciacca prosecutor Roberta Buzzolani, responsible for the area.
Also today in Naples a man, arrested by the police for attempted murder, he fired some gunshots into the street which crashed into a glass window, sowing the panic among children and mothers in the Chiaiano neighborhood of Naples. All this while many parents were accompanying their children to school. The man went up to his house and he barricaded himself in the house. When the police showed up in front of her apartment, she opened the door without any problems. She was, we learn, in a clearly impaired condition. He was taken to the police station and subsequently arrested.
