ROME (AFP) — Seven people including six foreign nationals were killed Thursday in two shooting incidents near the southern Italian city of Naples, police said.
Two people were also seriously injured in the shootings which the Italian news agency ANSA reported was believed to be linked to drugs trafficking.
"During the first shoot out which took place near Castel Volturno, on the coast between Naples and Caserte, six people were killed and two very seriously injured," an officer from the Caserte carabinieri paramilitary police told AFP.
The two injured had been taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition, the ANSA news agency added.
"One man died in another shoot out which took place a little earlier in a recreation hall. He was Italian," said the police officer.
He did not say if there was any link between the incidents.
ANSA reported the Italian man was killed after spraying the recreation hall with gunfire.
The news agency also reported the other shoot out was believed to be linked to drugs trafficking, but did not provide any details about the victims, who had no identity papers on them.
Naples is the base of the regional mafia known as the Camorra.
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