Woman hammered to death in street 'struck at least 16 times'

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 25 - A woman who was hammered to death in a northern Italian street by her ex-boyfriend last week was struck at least 16 times, the autopsy said Monday.
    The man was arrested by Carabinieri police on Wednesday after beating his former partner to death with a hammer in a street in Castegnato, in the northern province of Brescia.
    The alleged attacker, 59-year-old Ezio Galesi, waited for the police to arrive after the brutal murder of Elena Casanova, sources said.
    The 49-year-old woman was killed metres away from the car she had just parked, the sources said.
    She was an Iveco worker, an environmental activist and the mother of a 17-year-old girl from her first marriage.
    The relationship with her alleged attacker ended a year ago, the sources said.
    The homicide was only the latest in a long string of recent femicides in Italy in which women were killed by their current or former partners. (ANSA).