Three women were killed in separate incidents in Brazil, Italy, and France over the weekend, with current or former partners identified as suspects in each case, while police in Ghana are investigating the suspicious death of an unidentified woman whose decomposing body was discovered in a bush.

In Brazil’s western Bahia state, a woman was shot dead on a bus by her ex-partner, who then fled and was later found hanged, according to local police. The victim, identified as Eliene Matos de Castro, was travelling between Correntina and a rural community when the suspect, Sebastião Almeida dos Santos, boarded the vehicle, asked the driver to stop, and opened fire. Investigators said the couple had separated about a month earlier and are treating the case as a femicide followed by suicide.

In the Liguria region of Italy, a 51-year-old American woman, Mary Hopkins, was found dead in an isolated house near Ceriana. Her partner, Becken Olivieri, an Italian of Mauritian origin, turned himself in to the carabinieri and, according to prosecutors, confessed to suffocating her with a pillow during an argument on Friday evening. Some initial reports also described facial injuries, but the exact cause of death awaits an autopsy. The house has been sealed off as investigators gather evidence.

In the northern French city of Amiens, a 21-year-old woman was stabbed to death in an apartment in the early hours of Saturday. Her partner was taken into custody, and the local prosecutor’s office has opened a homicide investigation. Meanwhile, in Ghana’s Eastern Region, police are trying to identify a woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in a bush near Somanya, with signs of assault and advanced decomposition. Officers are reviewing missing-person reports and have contacted a local university about a missing student, but no identification has been made. Autopsies are pending in both the Italian and Ghanaian cases, and all investigations remain active.