A series of fatal attacks across three countries has left at least five people dead, with police in India, Italy, and Iran probing separate cases that include alleged intimate-partner violence and a suspected gangland reprisal. In the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, three killings occurred within hours on Sunday night, according to local law enforcement.

In the Mahalakshmi Layout area, a 23-year-old woman named Anjali was stabbed to death by her boyfriend Rajeev after she ended their relationship, police said. Investigators in Bengaluru report the couple had been together for several years, but the woman’s family opposed the union because of the man’s criminal record. Rajeev was arrested shortly after the attack. Across town in Bommanahalli, the body of 40-year-old Krishna Barman, originally from northern India, was discovered in her rented home; police suspect she was strangled by an acquaintance. A third incident saw a 29-year-old history-sheeter, Raja, hacked to death on a busy road in JP Nagar by assailants wielding machetes. CCTV footage captured the attack, and preliminary findings point to a revenge killing linked to a decade-old murder case in which Raja was an accused, Bengaluru police said.

In Italy, a 51-year-old man, Becken Olivieri, was hospitalised under psychiatric care after attempting suicide in a Sanremo prison, according to Imperia prosecutors. He had turned himself in on Saturday, confessing to suffocating his partner, Mary Elizabeth Hopkins, with a pillow at their home in Ceriana. Medical examiners noted signs of strangulation and bruising on the victim’s face; an autopsy is pending. Prosecutors have not yet filed a femicide charge, stating that evidence of gender-based motives required under Italy’s 2025 law is currently lacking. In Iran, a janitor in Tehran’s Andarzgoo district confessed to killing his wife after a dispute over financial expectations, Iranian police officials reported. The man initially claimed she had suffered a heart attack, but forensic examination revealed asphyxiation and facial injuries. He told investigators he struck her and covered her mouth during an argument, then attempted to stage the scene.

All cases remain under active investigation. No arrests have been made in the Raja murder, while the other suspects are in custody. Authorities in each jurisdiction have cautioned that motives and exact circumstances are still being established.