3 elderly Italian nuns raped, killed in Burundi
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THREE elderly Italian nuns were raped and murdered in twin attacks in their convent in the capital of Burundi, police said yesterday as a hunt was launched for their killers.
Police initially reported that two nuns were stabbed to death on Sunday. The killer then battered one of the two with a rock, before fleeing the convent.
Italian authorities named the first two killed as Olga Raschietti, 83, and Lucia Pulici, 75, both Roman Catholic nuns.
But in the early hours yesterday, another nun in the same convent was killed, her body beaten and head hacked off. Colleagues named her as Bernadette Boggia, aged 79.
According to the diocese of Parma in Italy, they were killed during a botched burglary attempt. But Burundi’s police said the motive of the killing was not clear, pointing out that no money was taken.
Police spokesman Colonel Helmegilde Harimenshi said all three were raped.
Father Mario Pulcini, an Italian Catholic priest working in the same parish, said after the first two nuns were killed, Boggia had called him in the middle of the night reporting she had heard a noise in the convent.
“The body of Sister Bernadette was found lying in a pool of blood, her head decapitated, and her face bore signs of beating. The perpetrators had abused her, as they had violated the other two sisters earlier.”
The suspected killer in the first attack was seen fleeing the convent with a knife in his hand. Police sources suggested the third nun was killed by an accomplice who had hidden in the convent.
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