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LEAD: Five dead in suspected Sicilian family killings (correction)
Jan 12, 2012, 10:22 GMT
Rome - Five people died Thursday in Sicily after a man apparently killed his eight-year-old daughter, his ex-wife, her brother and her mother, before committing suicide, Italian officials said.
Firefighters found the bodies of the three women in an apartment in Trapani, on the island's west coast, after intervening to extinguish a blaze, a spokesman said.
They were identified as the girl, her 40-year-old mother and the woman's 78-year-old mother.
The body of one of the men was found in the stairwell of the building, firefighters spokesman, Luca Cari, told television news channel Sky TG24.
Firefighters also recovered the body of the fifth victim, Pietro Fiorentino, 40, who is believed to have killed the other four and then to have set the apartment alight before throwing himself from a window on the building's fifth floor.
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