Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Mayor killed by the mob

Japanese mayor killed by mobster (AP)

Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Ito guides Swedish King Carl XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia at the atomic bomb hypocenter in Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki in this March 30, 2007 photo during the royal couple's trip to the southwestern Japanese city at the end of their week-long state visit to Japan. Ito was shot outside Nagasaki train station Tuesday, April 17, 2007, and is in critical condition, police said. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)AP - The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki was shot to death in a brazen attack Tuesday by an organized crime chief apparently enraged that the city refused to compensate him after his car was damaged at a public works construction site, police said.


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