Huge scare this Saturday in the La Salceda urbanization of Carrión de los Condes, in Palencia, near the monastery of San Zoilo. A man in his fifties was arrested by Civil Guard agents after 3 p.m. after allegedly stabbing and beating his mother in a house then tried to set fire to the family home.
The events occurred around 1:50 p.m. It was then that the 112 Health Emergency Service of Castilla y León received a call informing them that someone had attacked their mother with a knife to the neck, chest and arms. Teams from the armed institute and health services attended the scene, as well as firefighters from the Frómista Regional Park, who extinguished the fire that started in the basement of the house.
And the alleged attacker He had barricaded himself in his home “burning objects inside”.handling a cylinder and injuring himself with a knife in the neck”, reported sources from the Government Sub-delegation.
At the scene of the event, health services provided assistance to the mother, aged around 70, and then transferred her to Palencia hospital. The neighborhood was also evacuated, around 16 single-family homes, with elderly people and children, “due to possible damage due to the cylinders that were handled in the house and a fire that broke out in the garage.”
Once the precautionary measures were taken, the officers stationed on site maintained eye contact with the attacker from the window, convincing him to abandon his attitude and leave the home, while he self-harmed “continuously at neck and chest.” After 45 minutes of negotiation, the alleged attacker agreed to leave the home, after which he was arrested.
Health personnel treated the detainee on site and then transferred him to the psychiatry unit at Palencia Hospital for evaluation.
