Brit shot dead 'in his car' on Costa del Sol as gunman flees in broad daylight – Mirror Online, Google News

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A Brit has been brutally shot dead this afternoon in a new outbreak of Costa del Sol violence.

The 39 – year-old was shot multiple times in the chest in the Riviera del Sol, a popular area with British expats and holidaymakers a short drive from the resort of Fuengirola.

He man is understood to have been shot while he was sat inside the vehicle police found him in when they arrived at the scene.

The shooting happened around 3. 15 pm this afternoon.

The street where the shooting happened is a quiet residential street just north of the AP7 motorway running along the coast.

Police made a desperate attempt to save his life at the scene by practicing CPR but were unable to save him.

A high-end vehicle the gunman is believed to have fled in was seen speeding away from the scene.

No arrests have taken place so far .

On Friday a man was shot dead on aa residential estate known as Andasol a short drive from Marbella town center and close to a beach area called Alvarito Playa east of Marbella.

Detectives hunting the killer, believed to have fled the scene in a getaway car, have not made any official comment on the nationalities of the gunshot victims, although local reports at the time said they were of “Arabic origin.”

That incident is being linked to a gangland drugs feud.

In January a millionaire businessman who was close to the stars of reality TV series TOWIE and partied with the likes of Mohamed Al Fayed,was shot dead outside his luxury Costa del Sol home.

Marco Yaqout was gunned down in the early hours of January 21 as he drove into his garage in his trademark UK-plated Bentley.

His killer was waiting for him outside his villa on a quiet residential street in an upmarket neighborhood in San Pedro de Alcantara near Marbella called Las Petunias.

The gruesome murder was the latest in a string of violent incidents on the Costa del Sol in recent months.

They have included two attacks on Brits, the shooting of a Dutchman in a sushi restaurant in the popular resort of Benalmadena and the machine-gun murder of a Frenchman outside his home in Marbella.

English-speaking entrepreneur Marco was described at the time of his murder as the owner of at least five-well-known nightspots in Puerto Banus, including the TOWIE favorite TIBU, and Linekers.