An 18-year-old girl, Sara Centelleghe, would have turned 18 on November 9. She was stabbed to death last night in her third-floor apartment in Costa Volpino, a town with about eight thousand inhabitants at the northern end of Lake Iseo. The following afternoon, the Carabinieri of the Clusone and Bergamo stations arrested a young Indian man of almost the same age as the victim, Dip Gulsham, 19 years old. The latter lives in the same residential complex as Sara, but on a different scale, and is accused of voluntary homicide.

According to the reconstruction by the police, the girl was in the apartment with a friend while her mother was out. Shortly after 1:00 AM last night, the friend left to go to a nearby vending machine. That’s when the murder took place: Dip Gulsham reached Sara’s home, probably passing through the residential complex, and attacked her, stabbing her in the face and chest for reasons that investigators are still investigating. After the incident, the young man fled down the stairs and returned home.

When the friend returned shortly after, she noticed signs of blood on the stairs and upon entering the apartment she found Sara lifeless in a pool of blood. She immediately began calling for help, attracting the attention of the other residents of the building, which consists of about forty families. Some neighbors rushed to the scene and one of them contacted 112; another neighbor attempted resuscitation following the instructions of the emergency operator, but unfortunately without success. The paramedics who arrived on the scene also tried to save the young woman but there was nothing they could do; in the end she was declared dead.

After having ascertained the fact, the Carabinieri of the Clusone company and the Bergamo investigative unit began the investigation of the case under the supervision of the deputy prosecutor Giampiero Golluccio. The apartment where the murder took place was placed under seizure to collect further evidence.

In the early hours of the night, the friend who discovered the tragedy was questioned, as well as some of the victim’s neighbors and acquaintances. The girl’s mother had returned home shortly after the tragedy and her father (who lives separated) had also gone to the house to seek information on what had happened. After completing the necessary investigations at the crime scene, Sara Centelleghe’s body was transferred to the morgue of the Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo where it will undergo an autopsy in the coming days.

During the morning following the incident, the Carabinieri took Dip Gulsham from his home to seize any evidence such as clothes or sheets that could be useful to the investigation. It is em