A 50-year-old man stabbed his 75-year-old father last night at the height of an argument in an apartment in Ostiglia, in the Mantua area.
He himself called for help after the stabbing in the hope of being able to save his retired father but when the ambulance arrived he was already dead due to numerous chest and abdomen wounds inflicted with a kitchen knife.
He was then arrested by the carabinieri.
The man, two children, separated, had returned to live with his father a year after he had lost his job.
The reasons that caused the dispute are still unknown.