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Mafia war claims many lives

Rome: The Italian police have set up road blocks in Naples after the bloodiest mafia turf war the city has seen for years claimed a further four victims. Police found three bullet-riddled, handcuffed bodies in the Casavatore suburb on Monday night, all apparently killed in the middle of a road lined with blocks of flats, supposedly in reprisal for another killing hours earlier. No witnesses have yet come forward. The murders are the latest in a string of tit-for-tat killings within the local mafia, known as the Camorra. More than 40 persons have been killed since October in what police say is a turf war between the Di Lauro clan and breakaway families battling for control of Naples's booming drug trade. —

© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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