TWO WOMEN NABBED IN MAFIA SWEEP

TWO WOMEN NABBED IN MAFIA SWEEP

(ANSA) - Trapani, November 3 - Two women were among ten suspected mafiosi arrested Tuesday in the western Sicilian town of Alcamo.

Police said they had broken up a long turf war between rival clans fighting for control of rackets in the city midway between Palermo and Trapani, a port on Sicily's north-west tip.

One of the women is accused of collecting protection money and the other of counting and keeping it.

The clans are linked to Trapani superboss Matteo Messina Denaro, police said.

Separately, a cousin of Denaro's was arrested in Rome on suspicion of supplying Peruvian cocaine to showbiz figures.

Several people have been arrested and various raids made around Italy in this second probe.