A killer who had been declared Italy's most wanted man but managed to evade a nationwide manhunt for 10 days was killed in a shootout with police after taking a tourist hostage today, police said.
Luciano Liboni (47) had been on the run since he killed a policeman on the Adriatic coast on July 22nd. He had managed to evade several police traps, including one that resulted in a shootout in another part of Rome last week.
Today he took a French woman hostage when police spotted him near Rome's Circus Maximus, a tourist attraction of ancient Rome.
Liboni was taken to hospital, where he died during surgery to remove a bullet from his head. The tourist was unharmed.