A man stabbed his wife and two children before barricading himself inside their home in Italy, it has been reported.
The 35-year-old attacked his family earlier today in the town of Cianciana, in the Sicilian province of Agrigento.
It is understood that he stabbed his son and daughter, and their mother, several times, Sky reported.
The seven-year-old boy suffered multiple blows to the abdomen and is now in a serious condition.