Mafia boss called 'Wooden Hands' gunned down in Italian holiday resort as he went to meet his family
Hundreds of tourists looked on in horror when a mafia boss wearing only swimming trunks was gunned down as he left a palm-lined beach on the Mediterranean coast.
His picture a day before his death
Gaetano Marino, a boss from the Neapolitan Camorra, was hit by at least four shots to the head and another five or six to his back on Thursday afternoon. Italian police described the incident as a classic execution-style killing
Murder scene: authorities are searching for the two men who shot and killed Marino, who was visiting the a beach while on holiday with his family on the Mediterranean coast.
Marino was lured away from a beach club called La Sirenella by a call on his mobile phone and shot dead as he walked to his hotel in Terracina, 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Rome in Lazio region.
His family had gone ahead of him back to the hotel, police said. The incident caused panic along the crowded beach. Police they believed it to be the work of rival members of the Camorra mafia, which is based in and around Naples.
One other person was injured in the shooting. Police are hunting two men. They said the gunman, who may have had an accomplice, fired the shots from a 9mm semi-automatic pistol before driving off at high speed in a white Fiat Punto.
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