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	Mafia, Shootout, In Italian, Nursery, Playground. A mafia gangster has been shot dead by a rival in the courtyard of an Italian nursery as dozens of children rehearsed their Christmas carol service. Victim Luigi Lucenti, 50, was chased into the nursery by masked gunmen and shot several times at point blank range before his killers escaped on a high powered motorbike. Police said it was a miracle no-one else had been hurt as terrified pupils and teachers dived for cover when the hitmen struck. TV footage showed a huge pool of blood on the floor where Lucenti was shot. The killers struck at a nursery in the Scampia district of Naples - home to the local mafia known as the Camorra - the scene of a bloody turf war between mobsters over the control of the lucrative drugs markets. A police car leaves the scene Carabinieri police deal with mafia crimes Lucenti was the latest victim in a feud which has seen dozens killed as the rival Scissionisti gang, to whom Lucenti was linked, fight it out with the Girati. An innocent man was shot dead last week after being mistaken by hitmen for a member of the rival gang. "It appears that Lucenti ran into the nursery thinking that his killers would not follow him inside but they did and they shot him several times at point blank range in the courtyard," said a Naples police spokesman. ''The children and teachers were inside at the time and it is a miracle that no-one else was hurt. The children were inside singing carols for the Christmas performance. It looks like he was hit once in the <b>...</b>	From: DIVINA DIAZ Views: 0 0 ratings
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