The man stabbed his wife and eldest son, then attacked his youngest daughter
There is still a lot of concern about the conditions of the two children admitted to the Children’s Hospital of Palermo. Their conditions, in fact, remain very critical after the attack suffered by their father Daniele Alba, 35, in their home in Cianciana, Agrigento.
The prognosis of the children, aged 7 and 3, is still reserved and they must both remain in intensive care. The fathera bricklayer, handed himself over to the authorities after a truly absurd day and after locking himself in his house.
The older child suffered two surgical interventions: one to the chest, which involved the lung and heart, and one to the brain in neurosurgery. The little sister suffered multiple wounds to the face, two of which were particularly serious. After being handed over to the authorities outside her home by her father, while he was still barricaded in the house, the little girl had already lost a lot of blood. In the next few days, the children will be awakened to assess any neurological damage. “The situation is evolving”, say the doctors, “we are doing everything possible to save them”.
The alarm about what was happening was given at 2.30pm on Thursday 23 May. Daniele Alba, already known for domestic violence, stabbed his wife and eldest son, sending them out of the house and detaining his youngest daughter. An 118 operator, called by the neighbors, managed to convince Alba to hand over her daughter by approaching the window with a lifting basket. The little girl, wrapped in a bloody blanket also containing a bullet, was transferred together with her brother by air ambulance to the children’s hospital in Palermo.
In the entire “negotiation” operation with Alba, there was no shortage of fears that Alba was armed, overall complicating the intervention of the police. Daniele Alba remained silent during thearrest and throughout the first night in prison in Sciacca. After surrendering he also risked being lynched by a man who only hit the police car.
Alba is accused of triple attempted murder and will be questioned in the next few hours. It seems that the cause of the violence was a quarrel with his wife, perhaps she intended to leave him.
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