NAPLES -- Three Senegalese immigrants and a 10-year-old girl were wounded Wednesday during a shooting in the historic centre of this southern Italian city, police said.

 A young girl aged 10 was taken to Santobono hospital after accidently receiving a gun-wound to her foot during a shooting in via Annunziata in the historic centre of Naples.

 Three immigrants of Senegalese nationality, aged 32, 36, and 38, who work in the Maddalena market of via Annunziata in this Parthenope city were also wounded in the same shooting. They were taken to the Loreto mare hospital.

 Two of them were lightly wounded by splintered materials, but the third was more seriously wounded directly by a bullet.

 There is still uncertainty about the details and motivations behind the shooting -- the Naples police have opened an investigation.

 An early hypothesis has circulated that the immigrants were the deliberate targets of the raid, perhaps in a crime of revenge committed by local gangs for unsettled matters.

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