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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea

29 May 2021 A woman was killed by her husband in the street, hit several times with a knife. It happened in Rome in the early afternoon in Via Leonardo Greppi, in the Portuense area.



The woman, a 40-year-old from Sri Lanka, was reportedly stabbed by her husband after a fight in the street. There were about ten blows inflicted on the chest and other parts of the woman's body, according to what was represented by the witnesses present on the spot. 



The woman died shortly after arriving at the San Camillo-Forlanini hospital, due to her desperate condition. The 118 health workers, promptly rushed, provided first aid and then urgently transported her to the hospital but in vain. It seems that the two blows received in the chest were fatal for her



Her husband, a 49-year-old also Sinhalese, was blocked by passers-by and then stopped by police officers with the knife still in his hands. The man was accompanied to the San Paolo Commissariat and arrested on suspicion of murder. However, the reasons for the gesture need to be clarified. From the first investigations, it seems that the murder matured in the context of a period of crisis that the couple was going through. On the spot, for the findings of the case, the Scientific Police. 



The Health Directorate of the San Camillo-Forlanini hospital in Rome wrote in a note that the woman died due to the numerous and very serious cut wounds. The hospital added that the woman: "was immediately taken care of by the doctors of the Trauma Team (resuscitators of the UOSD Shock and Trauma and general surgeons), but despite the sudden treatment she suffered a cardiac arrest. transferred to the operating room and subjected to multidisciplinary surgery. Unfortunately the wounds were very serious and despite the therapeutic efforts of the treating team the patient died. The body was placed at the disposal of the judicial authorities ".