Matteo Messina Denaro, Once Italy’s Most Famous Fugitive, Dies at 61

Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted killer and high-ranking mobster with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra who had eluded capture for three decades, has died in a hospital in the central Italian city of L’Aquila, where he had been serving time in a maximum-security prison. He was 61.

Mr. Messina Denaro had been treated for cancer for years, and fell into a coma that doctors said on Friday was irreversible. The Italian news agency ANSA reported early Monday that he had died.

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