After the killing of two women in Austrian Carinthia, a man after shots were fired at police officers in a nearby Italian border town killed. The man had been of Italian police officers stopped, I opened fire and then killed, reported by the Italian channel RAI. The officers shot back shot accordingly.

Austrian investigators were on Saturday on the way to Tarvisio, in order to clarify whether it is the Suspect who killed a woman with an axe, and a further shot is supposed to have said a Carinthian police spokesman of the dpa. "There is a lot of points to a crime of passion," said the spokesman.

resolved According to police, Saturday was killed early in a 62-year-old woman probably with an axe. Shortly after this fact, in a house in the town of Wernberg, a 56-Year-old woman from a vehicle had been shot on a street in the area of Villach. A girl was in the immediate vicinity of the action, but she remained unharmed.

In the afternoon came the news about another death, this time from Tarvisio, around 30 kilometers away in the border town in Italy.

The Austrian investigators verified their suspicion that this man was the Suspect, the spokesman said. The exact relationship between the three persons is not yet clear.