A 62-year-old woman self-immolated
at Poggibonsi near Siena Thursday leaving a note saying she had
been conned out of her life savings by a foreign faith healer.
She sent the note to the local police station, sources said.
The woman died in a burns unit in Pisa a few hours after
setting fire to herself in the Tuscan town, sources said.
She reportedly doused herself in alcohol and set herself
alight in a car park.
It later emerged that the woman had given all her savings,
hundreds of thousands of euros, to the professed healer to treat
her seriously ill husband.
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