A 10-DAY manhunt for the suspected killer of a policeman ended in bloodshed before tourists in Rome where the fugitive, nicknamed The Wolf, grabbed a Frenchwoman at gunpoint before he was fatally wounded in a shootout.

Thousands of mourners, from Italy’s president to ordinary citizens, streamed past the caskets of 19 Italians killed in Iraq, paying their respects today to the victims of Italy’s worst military disaster since the Second World War.

Hundreds of people got stuck in lifts while switched-off traffic lights snarled cars across Italy today as heavy demand caused by a heat wave forced electricity companies to cut back on power.