Rome police hunt for possible serial killer after three women found dead

Investigators are working on the theory that the women were murdered by the same person. Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images

Police in Rome are hunting for a possible serial killer after the bodies of three women were found in two apartments in the upmarket district of Prati.

Two of the women, both sex workers of Chinese nationality believed to be aged between 40 and 50, were found stabbed to death in an apartment on Via Augusto Riboty.