Overview
- Neighbors reported a strong smell and water leaking from a fourth-floor flat in Via Rovani, prompting firefighters to force the door.
- Fire crews with police and emergency medics found a mother and daughter dead on a bed in an advanced state of decomposition.
- Investigators reported no outward injuries and are treating a double suicide as the working theory.
- ANSA reports a turned-off electric heater had released carbon monoxide and that one woman left a farewell note.
- Autopsies are pending to confirm the causes as outlets differ on ages, with reports listing the mother as 80 or 82 and the daughter as 50 or 52.