A man gave himself up Monday
after holing up for several hours in Calabria and injuring his
son and daughter-in-law, local sources said.
The man wounded the two relatives after a row, they said.
The incident happened in the "Schiavonea" district of
Corigliano Calabro near Cosenza.
The man's wife was with him when he barricaded himself in,
police said.
She was unhurt, police said.
A police negotiator talked the man, 76-year-old accountant
Cosimo Sisto, into coming out of his house and giving himself
up, Cosenza Carabineri chief Lt Cnl Piero Sutera told ANSA.
The negotiator "carried out a patient and prolonged job of
persuasion," Sutera said.
Earlier it was reported that the man shot and injured two
others with a firearm and then barricaded themself inside his
home in Corigliano Calabro.
The injured people were taken to hospital in the Calabrian
city of Cosenza via air ambulance, the sources
said. Carabinieri police are on the scene.
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