Italian police have arrested nine people suspected of involvement in the murder of a senior centre-left politician who was shot dead last year in broad daylight in the far south of Italy.
Among those seized was the suspected gunman.
Francesco Fortugno, vice president of Calabria's regional government, was killed in October shortly after he had voted in a ballot to elect a national leader for the opposition bloc.
His murder shocked Italy and was immediately blamed on the 'Ndrangheta mobsters, who are based in the Calabria region in the toe of Italy and have replaced the Sicilian Mafia as the nation's most powerful organised crime group.
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Four of the nine were already being held in prison in connection with other crimes, a police spokesman said.