Patient stabs psychiatrist 40 times

A psychiatrist has died after being stabbed 40 times by one of her patients during an appointment at a public health facility in Italy, investigators said.

Police said the attacker, a man in his 40s with a history of drug and alcohol abuse and a criminal record for drug dealing, was subdued by a colleague of the 53-year-old doctor after the attack during a private meeting in Bari, a city in the southern region of Puglia.