(recasts after brain death procedure stopped)
A 74-year-old woman was brutally
attacked at Taranto's Santissima Annunziata hospital by a man
who then fled the scene late on Wednesday.
The woman was attacked while she was on a hospital bed
waiting for treatment in the emergency room late on Tuesday.
She was initially declared brain dead but the protocol to
follow in such cases was suspended after slight activity was
detected.
Her condition is desperate though, according to reports.
Police are looking for a man aged around 40 with long, curly
hair.
Investigators have not yet established whether the killer
knew the woman or is mentally ill.
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