(ANSA) - Milan, April 27 - Two North African men were arrested Friday in connection with a spree of violence in Milan Thursday night. The pair were arrested, among other things, on suspicion of stabbing to death a 22-year-old Bangladeshi man during a robbery in Via Settembrini and injuring a 21-year-old British woman student, also stabbed in the abdomen, during a robbery near the central rail station.

The other two episodes Carabinieri suspected the pair of committing are wounding a 31-year-old Italian with two stab wounds to the abdomen and chest to get his wallet at Cinisello Balsamo on the Milan outskirts, and an attack on a 36-year-old Peruvian, beaten up and injured to rob him of two cellphones at Cinisello.

The Italian has been taken to Niguarda Hospital and is in a life-threatening condition.

