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British criminal shot dead in hotel had fired 60 bullets at police trying to arrest him

J. CANO / H. BARBOTTA

bullets were found afterwards. On some walls, forensic teams couldn't measure the diameter of each shot as they were so close together they had merged into one bigger hole in the plasterboard dividing the different rooms inside the small apartment. ... According to first investigations, Hercules had got ahead of the two officers in the apartment's hallway -one officer waited by the door-, and run into the bedroom at the end. Police caught sight of two pistols and spare bullets magazines on the white ... His documentation and a bullet were found inside. By 5pm police were outside his apartment. The two officers in the passage knew to be ready but Hercules got to his guns on the bed first and started firing indiscriminately at them. Some bullets hit

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Police locate submachine gun linked to Brits arrested over Estepona shooting

Fernando torres / juan cano

...gun. No one was shot but the sound of bullets being fired resulted in several calls to the emergency services. The National Police were deployed to the area and a patrol car located the two suspects in a vehicle, which then reversed into the

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Man gunned down in central Marbella in broad daylight

JUAN CANO / CHARO MÁRQUEZ

...before firing a hail of bullets into his body. According to preliminary inspections of the scene, a dozen bullets were fired, six of which struck his body, killing him instantly. The assailant, who was wearing a helmet according to witnesses, then

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...of death. Amongst the remains of a battlefield lie thousands of strewn figures half-buried in ash and soil. Their eyes are picked clean. Bullets are planted like seeds in the basket of their yellow ribs. Amongst the brittle bones of faceless

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Body found on Marbella-Istán road had multiple bullet wounds

SUR

...firefighters and an ambulance to respond to the report. The body was transferred to the Hospital Clínico in Malaga to carry out tests and examine the trajectories of the different bullets. It was then sent to Malaga's Institute of Legal Medicine on Monday for

Local

Driver fatally shot in the head in front of his wife and daughter

Álvaro FRÍAS/Juan CANO

...home in San Pedro de Alcántara at around 3.30am. In his attempt to escape, he was hit by more than a dozen bullets.

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Frenchman killed in Marbella in latest score-settling was shot 20 times with an AK-47

Juan CANO / Álvaro FRÍAS

Violent crime returned once more to the Costa del Sol on Tuesday night, with another murder with the hallmarks of a settling of scores. A 58-year-old man with French nationality received a hail of bullets after he entered the garage of his home in ... with next to no lighting. Upon his arrival, he was taken by surprise in his garage as he got out of his car and was shot multiple times. The post-mortem showed that he received 20 bullets in his head and upper body from an AK-47 machine gun which was

Sport

Is Poch the Real deal?

Rob Palmer

...do was tackle. I'm so proud of him." Pochettino had done his homework on me, charmed me and disarmed me. Not that I had any bullets! Watch out for him. He's good, he's very good. He has my commendation for a top job when the even bigger clubs

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Man attacked and kidnapped on busy Estepona street is found dead in Algeciras

CHARO MÁRQUEZ / JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS

Onlookers have been speaking of the panic that swept through residents and holidaymakers in Estepona on Tuesday night as the events unfolded. Many feared a terrorist attack as the sound of bullets and people's cries rang out along Avenida de España. At

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Héctor Barbotta

Costa del Sol to the Costa del Crime, a situation that was covered up as it did little for tourism promotion until the revenge killings, some with stray bullets that claimed innocent victims as collateral damage, forced the authorities into action.

LifeStyle

The crimes of 'Little Finland'

FRANCISCO GRIÑÁN

Pyykkö, who has directed several Nordic noir series, including Hooked and Black Windows, while the script will be produced by Matti Laine, author of several novels and writer of popular series like Bordertown and Bullets. Forget the past The producers

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Rachel Haynes

...uncertainty about the tenor that the show was taking had left everybody paralyzed. Taking advantage of the surprise, the magician lowered the weapon, opened it and extracted all the bullets. He showed them moving his hand from side to side so that the audience

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Gamel Woolsey, the burning poet

Alberto gómez

The baker who had to hide and ended up riddled with bullets. The workers in the steel factory, who before the war began had called a strike to demand 15 pesetas a day. She gave a voice to those condemned not to have one. “She individualised the

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A luxury seafood diet in Paleolithic Malaga

FERNANDO TORRES

...to hide and ended up riddled with bullets. The workers in the steel factory, who before the war began had called a strike to demand 15 pesetas a day. She gave a voice to those condemned not to have one. "She individualised the pain, the fear, the