Two elderly women were
killed in their home at Ramacca near Catania Wednesday and
police think they were beaten and stabbed during an attempted
robbery.
Carabinieri police are at the scene.
Police think the women may have been tortured to get them to
say where their valuables were.
Caltagirone prosecutor Giuseppe Verzera said "this is the
umpteenth massacre in the area, there have already been seven
murders here".
He said the scene of the crime was "spine-chilling".
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