7 Jan, 2019 @ 12:33
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Man shot outside nightclub on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Kube nightclub
SCENE OF SHOOTING: Kube nightclub
SCENE OF SHOOTING: Kube nightclub

A MAN has been shot outside a nightclub on Spain’s Costa del Sol in the early hours of this morning. 

The 40-year-old was gunned down at the door of Kube in Puerto Banus, Marbella, at around 6am.

He is believed to be Moroccan, according to La Opinion de Malaga.

He was shot in the leg before being taken to the Costa del Sol hospital and later transferred to the Clinical Hospital.

Policia Nacional are investigating.

The motive behind the attack is still unknown.

The man is believed to be in a stable condition and is now conscious.

More to follow…

 (CORRECTION: A previous version of this story cited a Spanish article which said the man had been killed, he is alive)

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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