A local mafia boss and his 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 boss, who had a criminal record for drugs, eluded another
assassination attempt in December when he escaped with an
abdominal wound when he and another drugs convict were attacked
with a machine gun.
Bari anti-mafia police are investigating.
The couple's 16-year-old son is awaiting trial for murdering
a 17-year-old from Eboli, Mario Morelli, in San Severo last
October, and the attempted murder of another friend of the same
age.
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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