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ROME: Security forces including army paratroops on Saturday arrested seven members of the Camorra mafia believed linked to the killing of African immigrants near Naples last month, police in Caserta said.
The seven are accused of homicide, criminal association and extortion among other offences.
Six African immigrants and an Italian man were gunned down on September 18 in the Castel Volturno area near Caserta in an attack blamed on the powerful Casalesi clan of the Camorra.
Three suspects were arrested earlier but Giuseppe Setola, said to have led the attack, is still on the run.
Hundreds of paratroops and police reinforcements were drafted into the area in a government show of force following the killing of an Italian owner of a recreation hall along with three Ghanaians, two Liberians and a Togolese.
Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said the troops would remain in the region until the end of the year but could stay longer if needed.
Investigators have said they thought the murders could be part of a drug trafficking turf battle although none of the victims was said to be linked to the trade.
The Casalesi clan controls drug trafficking and prostitution in the Caserta area. It has been blamed for dozens of deaths over the past three decades.
- AFP/yt
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