(ANSA) - Reggio Emilia, December 7 - A mother suffocated her
two-year-old daughter and stabbed to death her five-year-old son
before trying to commit suicide with the kitchen knife near
Reggio Emilia Thursday. Police found the boy's body with the
knife sticking out of his stomach next to the mother in a car in
the countryside near Luzzara. The woman, 39, was taken to
hospital and is not said to be in a life-threatening condition.
She was said to have suffered from psychiatric problems in the
past. The father was at work.
Mother kills son, 5, daughter, 2
With kitchen knife