Elderly man shoots and kills his sick wife then attempts suicide - last minute. It happened this morning around 6.45 in a farmhouse in the countryside of Corridonia, in the Macina district of Macerata.

The alarm was raised by the son-in-law of the man who lives with his wife on the upper floor of the building. They heard a shot and the man went down to the ground floor, finding the 86-year-old dead and the elderly man injured on the ground.