Italy police arrest five over double Mafia killing .  CATANIA , [START_ENT] Sicily [END_ENT] 1996-08-29  Italian Police said on Thursday they had arrested five people in connection with the slaying of the daughter and 14-year-old nephew of a Mafia boss earlier this week .  Santa Puglisi , 22 , and Salvatore Botta were gunned down in a cemetery in this eastern Sicilian city on Tuesday in a crime which shocked even hardened anti-Mafia investigators .  The arrests followed a tip-off from a married couple who unexpectedly showed up at investigators ' offices on Wednesday . "  They wanted to get a weight off their consciences , " a police spokesman said .  He added the couple had also shed light on the murder last year of the wife of Mafia boss Nitto Santapaola .  Puglisi was shot as she knelt praying by the tomb of her young husband , who was himself killed last year in a Mafia ambush .  Botta , who had accompanied Puglisi to the cemetary , tried to flee the lone gunman but was caught and killed .
Italy police arrest five over double Mafia killing .  CATANIA ,
Sicily
1996-08-29  Italian Police said on Thursday they had arrested five people in connection with the slaying of the daughter and 14-year-old nephew of a Mafia boss earlier this week .  Santa Puglisi , 22 , and Salvatore Botta were gunned down in a cemetery in this eastern Sicilian city on Tuesday in a crime which shocked even hardened anti-Mafia investigators .  The arrests followed a tip-off from a married couple who unexpectedly showed up at investigators ' offices on Wednesday . "  They wanted to get a weight off their consciences , " a police spokesman said .  He added the couple had also shed light on the murder last year of the wife of Mafia boss Nitto Santapaola .  Puglisi was shot as she knelt praying by the tomb of her young husband , who was himself killed last year in a Mafia ambush .  Botta , who had accompanied Puglisi to the cemetary , tried to flee the lone gunman but was caught and killed .
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