British woman has been killed in Alicante province in one of two murder-suicides

British woman has been killed in Alicante province in one of two murder-suicides which took place in Spain on Sunday. Both women were shot by their husbands, who then used the murder weapon to take their own lives.The Alicante couple lived in San Fulgencio, where the 55 year old victim was shot as she lay sleeping in her home early on Sunday afternoon. Her murder and her 72 year old husband’s suicide were discovered shortly after 10pm when the couple failed to keep an appointment with a neighbour who was due to drive them to El Altet Airport to collect the husband’s sister who was arriving from the UK that day. The man had suffered some strokes, but was thought to be recovering well. The bodies of the two have been taken to Alicante for autopsies to be carried out.In neighbouring Cataluña, a woman in her forties died at the family home in Vila-Seca, Tarragona province, when she was also shot by her husband. He then committed suicide, and it’s understood from EFE that the couple’s young son was in the house at the time and was a witness to his parents’ deaths on Sunday night.Yet another woman died in Madrid on Sunday, a Cuban woman who was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife at her home in Talamanca del Jarama. The murderer was her 20 year old son, who fled the scene after the fatal stabbing early on Sunday and was later arrested 4 kms away from the village after stabbing another woman as he made his escape through the village.She survived the attack.