A 50-year-old man doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire in the methane car parked in front of the family home, where a separation was taking place. The incident occurred in via Puccini, in Golasecca (Varese), at 6 this morning.

The injured man suffered very extensive burns, is serious and was transported to hospital under code red. The man's wife and daughter who desperately tried to help him were slightly injured and in shock. (HANDLE)