Italy: Captured mafia boss Messina Denaro in coma — reports

Italian media reported on Saturday that mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who was captured in January after 30 years on the run, was in a coma.

Messina Denaro has colon cancer and doctors say he will not recover. At his own request, life-sustaining measures have been discontinued, doctors from the hospital in the central Italian city of L’Aguila announced. 

In early August, the 61-year-old head of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia underwent intestinal surgery at L’Aguila’s San Salvatore…