WORLD : Murder-Suicide at Consulate
NAPLES, Italy — A Turkish guard at the Turkish Consulate killed an Italian co-worker in a fit of rage and turned his gun on himself in a murder-suicide spree today at the diplomatic mission.
Police identified the victims as Ahmet Gulduoglu, 37, a Turkish policeman assigned to guard duty at the consulate, and Italian Vicenzio Di Scala, employed for the past 10 years at the mission.
According to investigators, the morning shootings began after consular driver Kaliskan Adiguezel, 39, arrived at work and showed a newspaper article to Di Scala and Gulduoglu, who had just completed a security inspection of the garage.
Police said the Turk went into an unexplained rage.
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