Spanish tourists' on Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan shooting
Eddie Lyons Jnr, 46, and Ross Monaghan, 43, were gunned down at Monaghan's Bar in Fuengirola on Saturday.
(Image: Image from Spindrift.) Spanish TV aired the horrific scenes, which shows Monaghan, with blood seeping through his white t-shirt from a chest wound, propping himself up on a table before collapsing. It came seconds after Eddie Lyons Jnr was shot outside the premises.
Bar CCTV captured the gunman - who was dressed in black - chasing critically-injured Monaghan before he stumbled and fell to the ground. Two bystanders, thought to be a waitress and another man in black, can be seen running away from the suspect.
The gunman later fled on foot before rejoining an accomplice in a car who had driven him to the murder scene.
No details about the getaway vehicle have been released.
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There is speculation that the shootings are linked to the ongoing gangland feud in central Scotland which has resulted in dozens of incidents, including alleged attempted murders, and more than 40 arrests.
Some of the people targeted in the violence are linked to the Daniels crime group - long-time rivals of another serious organised crime group, the Lyons family, of which Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan were members.
(Image: Image from Google Maps.) British tourists who'd been in Monaghan's before the shooting described it as a friendly bar.
They told BBC News that a group of Scottish men were watching the Champion's League final in the pub before the shooting. They were boisterous but not behaving badly and Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan were with them.
David Meddicks from Glasgow had left the bar with his wife a couple of hours before.
He said: "We went back to our hotel for food and later on at the reception of the hotel, two wee Spanish women ran in, shouting 'bang, bang, bang, bang.'"
"We looked and we could see the police and all the blue lights. We had been thinking of going back down for another drink and decided not to bother. So I'm quite glad I didn't."
Meanwhile, an Englishman who been in the pub said: "We were there an hour before and walked back later and found out what happened.
"It made us want to go home, to be quite honest. You go away on holiday and you don't expect this. Really frightening."
Another tourist, Robert Sorman from Bathgate, said: "You've heard of the Costa Del Crime but you never expect it to happen when you're here."
An elite Costa Del Sol-based anti-drug and organised crime unit is heading the investigation, reporting to a local magistrate who is in charge of the inquiry overall.
The Spanish police said there has been no official confirmation of the identity of the two victims.
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It comes as Monaghan was acquitted of the murder of Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll in 2010 after the judge at his 2012 trial ruled there was insufficient evidence. Eddie Lyons Jr had previously been shot in 2006, in an incident that was believed to be part of a gang feud.
Meanwhile, Monaghan was shot in the back after dropping his child off at a primary school in Glasgow in 2017.
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