A husband and wife were gunned down
in a cosmetics shop at San Severo near Foggia in Puglia
Wednesday. The couple were killed by several gunshots, police
said. The husband was identified as Nicola Salvatore, 56, and
his wife as Isabella Rotondo, 55. The man, who had a criminal
record for drugs, had recently eluded another assassination
attempt. Police said the double homicide was probably linked to
another murder in San Severo last October. Bari anti-mafia
police are investigating. Puglia's mafia, the Sacra Corona Unita
(United Holy Crown, SCU), is Italy's fourth and smallest mafia
after Calabria's 'Ndrangheta, Sicily's Cosa Nostra and
Campania's Camorra.
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