Messina Denaro: Cancer ward in Trapani searched

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 18 - A cancer ward in a Trapani hospital where captured Cosa Nostra superboss Matteo Messina Denaro was treated during the last year of his 30-year flight from Italian justice searched by police on Tuesday morning, sources said Wednesday.
    Police searched the oncology department at the Sant'Antonio Abate Hospital in the western Sicilian coastal city as they sought the first cancer exam undergone by the 60-year-old boss, who has colon cancer.
    Investigators said they were evaluating the position of ward chief Doctor Filippo Zerilli, who was off sick on Tuesday.
    The position of other doctors are also being weighed as police want to know if they were aware who was the man hiding behind the assumed name of Andrea Bonafede, a man who helped Messina Denaro. (ANSA).