A man kills his 10-year-old son in Tenerife and leaves his partner in critical condition.

BarcelonaA man murdered his 10-year-old son early this morning in the municipality of Arona, in southern Tenerife, and left his partner and the child's mother critically injured. According to the EFE news agency, the Civil Guard shot and killed the man after he threatened officers with a machete. The 26-year-old woman remains hospitalized on the Canary Island. Sources from the Civil Guard, cited by the same agency, explained that the crime occurred around 1:00 a.m. at a home in the town of Cabo Blanco. Neighbors alerted the Civil Guard to a disturbance at the residence. When officers arrived, they found the boy's body and the woman with injuries to her limbs. The attacker, 35, was carrying a large machete, which he used to stab the child and his mother, and was shot dead after resisting arrest. In fact, he even injured a Civil Guard officer, though the officer's condition is not life-threatening.

In this case, there were no prior complaints, and neither the victim nor the aggressor appear in the VioGén monitoring registry. This This week has been disastrous in terms of gender-based violence.with three women and a 12-year-old girl murdered. Since the beginning of the year – just fifty days ago – 10 women and two minors have been murdered. In six of the crimes, there had been reports of violence, five of them filed by the victims themselves. With the double murder in Tenerife, the number of fatalities since 2003, when official records began, rises to 1,353 women and 67 children under 18 years oldJust two days ago, a 37-year-old woman was murdered in Madrid. This case followed the double murder on Tuesday of a woman and her daughter in Xilxes (Castellón) and the murder of a nurse at her workplace on Monday in Benicàssim. The judge has ordered the provisional imprisonment of the Xilxes assailant, who has chosen to exercise his right to remain silent.