A man murders his ex-partner at the clinic where she worked, in Benicàssim.

BarcelonaThe Civil Guard arrested a man on Monday as the suspected perpetrator of a knife attack on his ex-partner, a nurse at the Benicàssim health center, who died from multiple stab wounds. The 64-year-old victim was taken by ambulance in critical condition to the General Hospital of Castellón, but doctors were unable to save her life, according to EFE. The Civil Guard has arrested the 70-year-old man and is investigating the incident. If confirmed as a gender-based crime, it would be the seventh femicide in Spain this year at the hands of husbands or ex-partners, a figure that rises to 1,349 since official statistics began in 2003. On Sunday, the Civil Guard reported a restraining order against the perpetrator, as well as the victim's mother and sister. A study on gender-based violence against women over 60, conducted by the Catalan Women's Institute, concludes that these attacks are largely invisible to this group, as specialized resources, which focus more on younger victims, neither detect nor address them. The normalization of violence, fear, and social and structural barriers explain the low rate of reporting. According to the same report, 45% of older women identified having suffered gender-based violence at some point in their lives, and of these, 15% at the hands of former partners, and another 10% at the hands of their current partner.

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