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 6am on Tuesday morning.
The injured man suffered very extensive burns, is serious and was transported to hospital under code red.
The man's 42-year-old wife and 13-year-old daughter who desperately tried to help him were slightly injured and in shock.
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