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| Notorious Mafia boss Salvatore 'Toto' Riina dies aged 87 | Notorious Mafia boss Salvatore 'Toto' Riina dies aged 87 |
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| Notorious Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore "Toto" Riina has died from cancer, Italian media reports say. | |
| Riina, 87, former boss of the feared Cosa Nostra, was jailed in 1993. | Riina, 87, former boss of the feared Cosa Nostra, was jailed in 1993. |
| He was serving 26 life sentences and is believed to have ordered more than 150 murders. | He was serving 26 life sentences and is believed to have ordered more than 150 murders. |
| Riina had been in a medically induced coma and his family had been given special permission to visit him in the prisoners' wing of the hospital in Parma. | |
| The mobster's eldest son, Giovanni, is serving a life sentence in jail. | |
| Riina was behind a series of mafia bombings in Rome, Milan and Florence in 1993, which left 10 people dead. | Riina was behind a series of mafia bombings in Rome, Milan and Florence in 1993, which left 10 people dead. |
| A year earlier, two anti-Mafia judges - Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino - were killed in Riina's "war against the state". | A year earlier, two anti-Mafia judges - Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino - were killed in Riina's "war against the state". |