(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 23 - The 45-year-old partner of 50-year-old woman who was killed on Monday in Bondeno, in the northern province of Ferrara, is suspected of the murder and has been detained.
Prosecutors said the man gave a "contradictory" version of events.
The case looks set to be only the latest in a long string of femicides in Italy that shows no signs of stopping.
On Monday a 39-year-old farmer from a village near Trento on killed his 42-year-old wife with a hatchet blow to the neck and then tried to kill himself with the same weapon.
A 20-year-old student is seriously ill in hospital, meanwhile, after being stabbed by her former boyfriend in Turin. (ANSA).
Partner detained over woman's murder as femicides continue
Man killed wife with hatchet near Trento in separate case