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Triple homicide shocks Argentina:

A martial arts instructor killed his exgirlfriend, her sister and her grandmother in Argentina Sunday, authorities said, days after a mass protest against a brutal series of women’s killings.

Armed with a gun and a knife, the 30-year-old man went on a bloody rampage at his ex-girlfriend’s home in the western town of Godoy Cruz, killing the three women and badly wounding a seven-month-old girl and an 11-year-old boy, investigators said.

The man then opened the home’s gas burners and lit a candle, but authorities arrived before an explosion ocurred, said the security minister for the province of Mendoza, Gianni Venier.

The triple homicide comes after thousands of Argentines dressed in black protested Wednesday against the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl, the latest in more than a year of mass marches to protest violence against women.

In Argentina, domestic violence kills one woman every 36 hours, according to government figures.

The man accused of Sunday’s killings