Italian media are reporting that an infant boy has died as the result of a circumcision performed by his parents at home.
The ANSA news agency reported on Sunday that the 5-month-old baby was brought to a hospital in Bologna by helicopter in cardiac arrest on Friday afternoon and died that night.
The prosecutor's office in the region of Reggio Emilia has opened a manslaughter investigation.
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