A domestic dispute at a home on Via Conforti in Marcianise ended with a man hospitalized for head injuries, according to Il Mattino Caserta.

Police from the local commissariat intervened following the domestic dispute between husband and wife. According to the report, the woman allegedly struck her husband repeatedly on the head with a heavy object described as resembling a hammer.

The injured man was taken to the emergency department of a hospital in Caserta. He reportedly suffered several head wounds requiring stitches. He was alert at the time of the report, and his condition was not considered particularly concerning.

The woman was being held at the Marcianise Public Security commissariat while prosecutors considered her legal position and any possible charge. The motive for the dispute and the precise circumstances of the assault were not yet clear, and the identities of those involved were not reported.