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Zagreb, February 18 (CP) – The Croatian capital Zagreb has seen yet another mafia-style killing on Sunday night, as an unknown attacker gunned down one of the three brothers charged with the killing of an underworld boss in 1998.

Vinko Rodic, one of the acquitted men in the proceedings in the murder of criminal gang boss Zlatko Bagaric had been sprayed with some 10 bullets in Zagreb’s Dubrava residential area’s cafe significantly named Bugsy, owned by his brother Sebastian.     
Rodic was taken to hospital in critical condition.

After shooting Rodic, the killer fled the cafe, where a group of people was celebrating Kosovo’s independence, as the Rodic family derives from the Kosovo Croat-populated village of Janjevo.

The Rodic brothers: Vinko, Zoran and Lazar were tried for the killing of mafia boss Zlatko Bagaric in 1998, who was gunned down in front of a cafe.

However, only one of the brothers, Zoran, was sentenced to three years in prison, while the two others were acquitted.

Zagreb is known for its underworld members to clash from time to time with the last such incident happening on December 1, 2007, when jailed drug dealer Davor Zecevic was killed by a precise shot to the head in front of his girlfriend’s home, as he was enjoying a weekend outside jail.