A man named as Alvise Miccoli, 32,
set his ex-girlfriend's father on fire Wednesday.
The man, who has a criminal record, barricaded himself into
his ex's house with her 16-year-old sister and her grandmother.
Police talked him into surrendering, and arrested him.
The woman's father was hospitalized with first and
second-degree burns.
The incident took place in a country house between the
towns of Nardò and Avetrana, in the southern Puglia region.
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