Woman found dead in Calabria (2)

(ANSA) - Cirò Marina, March 9 - A 40-year-old woman, Antonella Lettieri, was found dead on Thursday in her home in Cirò Marina, in the southern region of Calabria. The body of the woman, a shop assistant in a relative's store who was single and lived alone, was found in a pool of blood. Carabinieri police are investigating the case, which could be the latest in a long series of recent femicides in Italy. The home was found in disarray. Sources said that the woman was killed late on Wednesday by a blow with a blunt object.