Carabinieri military police on
Monday foiled simultaneous suicide attempts by three sisters
aged 49, 63 and 72 in the Valle d'Aosta mountain town of
Valtournanche.
Officers stopped two of the sisters from throwing
themselves off a wall in the village of Maen, while local police
found the third trying to gas herself to death in her car.
The first two were taken to a psychiatric ward while the
third was hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning.
The three left suicide notes saying two lawyers cheated
them out of their life savings, leaving them destitute.
Police alerted a fourth sister, aged 66, about the
attempted suicides.
The four siblings are from the town of Carmagnola, in Turin
province.
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