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Agence France-Presse

A top Italian mafia boss has broken out from a prison in Uruguay, the interior ministry announced on Monday.
Rocco Morabito and three other inmates “escaped through a hole in the roof of the building” in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo late on Sunday and robbed the occupants of a nearby farmhouse, the ministry said in a statement.
The statement said Morabito – a top ’Ndrangheta figure arrested in Uruguay in 2017 after decades on the run – was awaiting extradition for “international drug trafficking”.
The ’Ndrangheta is an organised crime group based in Italy that has been described as one of Europe’s most powerful mafia.


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Rocco Morabito, the head of the ’Ndrangheta crime group, and three other inmates robbed the occupants of a nearby farmhouse after they escaped, officials said
Morabito was being held at the jail and awaiting extradition to Italy for drug trafficking offences


Rocco Morabito, the head of the ’Ndrangheta crime group, robbed the occupants of a nearby farmhouse after escaping, Uruguay’s interior ministry said.


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