A 21-year-old young man was injured by a firearm early this Tuesday in Marbella (Málaga) in a shooting that occurred between the occupants of two vehicles in an urbanization, the fourth so far this year in the municipality. Malaga.

The National Police has taken charge of the investigation of this event, in which the young man received two gunshot wounds, one in the knee and another in the pelvis area, for which he was transferred by paramedics to the Costa del Hospital. Sol, in Marbella, according to police sources.

The incident took place around 12:15 in the morning in the Los Naranjos urbanization in Marbella. Several individuals alerted the 112 Andalucía Emergency service that gunshots were heard.

One of the witnesses explained that several explosions had been heard coming from two vehicles stopped in the middle of a public road, one next to the other, and that the screams of their occupants could be heard.

From 112, the corresponding protocol was activated in the event of this type of situation and notification was given to the National Police, the Local Police, the Civil Guard and the health teams.

This new shooting, the third in which there are gunshot wounds, once again takes place in the Marbella district of Nueva Andalucía. The previous one took place on March 16 at a leisure establishment in Puerto Banús, where another man was injured by a gunshot.

On the 11th, also in March, two individuals on a motorcycle approached a restaurant on Juan Belmonte Street and one of them shot one of the customers in broad daylight. Next, he got on the motorcycle where the driver was waiting for him and they both fled without leaving any victims.

On February 10, another altercation took place on Yedra Street in Nueva Andalucía. The victim, of Nordic origin, was injured in an arm and a leg after receiving two gunshot wounds in an event that took place around 11:00 p.m.

This shooting was the result of a war between rival Swedish drug clans and led to the arrest, a month later, of three people for their alleged involvement in this confrontation.

Furthermore, according to 112, on February 13, in the same area of ??Nueva Andalucía, neighbors reported that they had heard explosions and that they had seen a car fleeing, although when the Police arrived at the scene they found no evidence. to confirm the shooting.