Mafia boss called 'Wooden Hands' gunned down in Italian holiday resort as he went to meet his family

Hundreds of tourists looked on in horror when a mafia boss wearing only swimming trunks was gunned down as he left a palm-lined beach on the Mediterranean coast. 
Gaetano Marino, a boss from the Neapolitan Camorra, was hit by at least four shots to the head and another five or six to his back on Thursday afternoon.
Italian police described the incident as a classic execution-style killing.

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Murder scene: authorities are searching for the two men who shot and killed Marino, who was visiting the a beach while on holiday with his family on the Mediterranean coast

Marino was lured away from a beach club called La Sirenella by a call on his mobile phone and shot dead as he walked to his hotel in Terracina, 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Rome in Lazio region.
His family had gone ahead of him back to the hotel, police said.
The incident caused panic along the crowded beach. Police they believed it to be the work of rival members of the Camorra mafia, which is based in and around Naples.
One other person was injured in the shooting.
Police are hunting two men. They said the gunman, who may have had an accomplice, fired the shots from a 9mm semi-automatic pistol before driving off at high speed in a white Fiat Punto.

Assassination: Police said Marino received at least four shots to the head and another five or six to his back

Police set up road blocks on the routes leading out of the resort, but the hit squad escaped. Marino, 48, headed the Scissionisti , or "secessionists" clan, which had fought a bloody turf war in the streets of Naples for years with the rival Di Lauro clan over control of drug trafficking. 
Marino was known as 'Wooden Hands' or 'Moncherino', which means stump, after he lost both hands in an explosion while planting a bomb in the 1990s. He stirred public outrage by appearing in the front row of a state TV audience this year while his 12-year-old daughter dedicated a song to him.
The Camorra has not hesitated in the past to assassinate rivals or traitors in public places, and Marino's killing was being investigated as a hit by rivals, either inside or out of his own clan. 
In the last few years, street killings blamed on mobsters have occurred in the Lazio region, including Rome, fueling fears among investigators that the Camorra, as well as the `ndrangheta organized crime gang from southern Calabria, have moved some of their interests near Italy's capital.
Gaetano's brother, Gennaro, is in a maximum-security jail serving a sentence for mafia association and murder.
It was the second public killing of a suspected mafia boss in less than a month. In July another Camorra boss, Modestino Pellino, was shot dead in the Lazio town of Nettuno, between Rome and Naples.