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26-year-old critical after being set on fire by woman

A26-year-old woman on Friday was critically injured after another woman doused her with inflammable liquid and set her on fire during a fight in Catania.

The victim was receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of the local Cannizzaro Hospital after suffering 20% burns on her face, neck, arms and chest during the attack which took place in the middle of a street in the Sicilian city.

The 26-year-old is being followed by specialists from the hospital’s burns unit.

Sources close to the probe said that, according to preliminary information that needs to be verified, the attack was connected to a fight over the phone between two minors.