Assailants fired an anti-tank rocket and an automatic weapon at the home of a suspected underworld figure in Cyprus, police said, killing a man media identified as a guard.
Private television station Sigma said suspected criminal Alexi Mavromichalis had been targeted as he returned to his home in Strovolos, a suburb of the Cypriot capital.
Online Philnews said a guard at the house had been hit and later died of his wounds in hospital.
Police confirmed the death yesterday but said they could not name the victim as the family had yet to be informed.
Violence of this kind is rare, but Cyprus was plagued by gangland turf wars in the early 1990s.
In 2013, five bodyguards were killed on a busy weekend night in the seaside resort of Ayia Napa when two hired gunmen opened fire on a car belonging to a businessman who they had apparently thought was travelling in it.
