Worker kills wife in umpteenth femicide

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 17 - A 49-year-old Moroccan-born worker was arrested Sunday after confessing to his employer that he had smothered his wife and killed her in a small Calabrian town near Catanzaro.
    The couple had been rowing more frequently and more violently lately, neighbours told police.
    It is the umpteenth femicide in a wave that last year saw 118 women murdered, 70 by their current or former partners.
    The numbers were up respectively from 110 and 67 in 2019.
    (ANSA).