A woman in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, has become the ninth domestic violence fatality so far this year in Cataluña and the fifty-eighth in Spain.
It is thought that the husband, aged 43 years, killed his wife, aged 42 years, and then committed suicide.
The couple, who ran a bar in Vilanova i la Geltrú, have a son aged 20 years and a daughter aged 9 years. It was the son who discovered the bodies of his parents after he went to the bar and was surprised to find that it was closed. Entering, he then made the gruesome discovery.
As is often the case, there was no prior record of mistreatment or violence within the family unit.