Italian police arrested the chief of a Naples mafia clan, Michele Zagaria, who has been on the run for 16 years.
"You won. The state has won," Zagaria told anti-mafia investigators as he was being arrested.
A total of 50 police officers were involved in the operation to remove Zagaria, 53, from the underground bunker, discovered beneath an anonymous building in his rural hometown.
The bunker structure itself was made of reinforced concrete up to five metres thick, according to Italy's Il Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Dozens of houses and buildings in the area had been searched by a team of 350 officers before he was found, La Repubblica reports.
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| Police in Caserta greeted the news with joy |
The Casalesi clan is one of a number of groups within the Camorra criminal network, which dominates the underworld in the Naples area. Zagaria is thought to be the most senior figure in the Camorra who was still at large.
for further information: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16065556
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